Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

[Colin Campbell]

On 09/06/11 11:52, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:46:52AM +0200, Richard Foley wrote:

>> Even worse is:
>> 	unless ( !something ) { ...
>>
>> The brain just into tailspin goes.
> 
> It's not just Germans' brains that melt.  Double negatives are just
> confusing.  Normal people hardly ever use them.
> 
Judging from some of the code I've seen some folks (possibly with a bit
less programming experience) think its great to pile on the
unless ( !$something && !$something_else || $yet_something_else )

Simplicity is hard to learn...


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