[JOB] Perl Software Developer and Database programmer

Joel Bernstein joel at fysh.org
Thu Feb 23 11:42:47 GMT 2006


On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:07:34AM +0000, Lusercop wrote:
> I'm not trolling. I really think that writing subs that pretend to be map
> and grep or similar is not a way to, in general, write maintainable code...

Out of interest, why is it "bad" to write higher-order functions? I'd
say that was about the neatest way to make specific functionality more
generic when refactoring.

I *heart* the ($&) prototype.

/joel


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