Hi all,
I'm following this mailing list for a while. Also, we had a small project inhouse
that had some components made in perl.
It was developped by 3 diferent guys, so we shared some code. In the end, I was the
one who glued everything.
I don't know if is just us in here, but perl seems to "help" programmers make fuzzy
and hard to understand scripts.
but why use $_ or even nothing ( because almost every function can use $_ by
default)?
if I have a problem in a script, and I see a $_, I just have to backtrack and read
the actual code just to see what that particular variable is supposed to hold.
That's why they invented variable names, no? no use to have a var called $a or $xyz.
Ins't a line like: s/$_[1]//;
or even s/.+\w*?//; (assuming some things, its the same , no ? :)
more cryptic then: $fullname=~s/$lastname//;
Eveybody can see that I want to take out the last name from the the var that holds the
full name.
But in the first two cases, I just have to read the actual code to just understand
what that line is supposed to do.
I don't want to be flamed :) I'm not saying its bad by itself... it's like having a
goto in a language. It doens't harms anyone by itself.. but allow programmers to shoot
themselfs in the foot.
Just my two cents,
Duarte Cordeiro
