On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Brian Fraser wrote: > There is no need to do it in a single expression, other than causing your > maintenance programmer some headache.
Yes, that was certainly a challenge to follow! Might I conclude, then, that a lot of those Perl extensions are of dubious value, if one takes maintainability into account? Or are there situations in which they're considered essential? (I realize that's a matter of opinion, but I am curious to learn when or whether it's advisable to have those constructs in my "toolbox" at all.) Chap -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/