On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:04:34AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:50:35PM -0400, darren chamberlain said:
> > I use the one from lib.pm:
> >
> > @nodups = grep { ++$h{$_} == 1 } @dups;
>
> using grep is the other idiom/technique/method/pattern/whatever that
> I've seen I just have a sort of irrational fear of grep stemming from
> when I was first learning Perl and someone more experienced than I told
> me that you very rarely ever need to use it and 99% of the time people
> use it incorrectly.
I don't understand how anyone can say that any construct is used
"incorrectly" if the result is the desired one. It may be that they
is a better/different way to solve the problem, but thats what perl
is all about TMTOWTDI.
Graham.
