Dear Gabor,
You might be surprised, but I am mostly interested in how do I use
_existing_ features of Perl, rather than trying the best and latest. I am
also not in favor of adding more and more shortcuts to existing features.
The most typical example is the "//=" construct. Maybe it is faster, maybe
it is shorter, but it makes Perl increasingly less self documentary and
harder on newbies to read existing code. We newbies are required to know too
much in order to understand existing code. Try please to search for an
answer to the question of "...what the hell is this '//=' combination?" I
strongly sympathized with someone arguing not long ago on this list against
adding more features to Perl. (Sorry, I can't remember his name!)
So to answer your question, the way I learn anything (not just Perl, new
features or otherwise ...) is to solve a problem at hand. And if I learn a
"new" feature on the way, so be it. (That's how I came across this useless
feature. What's wrong with "if (! defined...) {...}"? And usually you need
to do more things in such a case, and assigning a default value might not be
even one of them...!)
That's my 2ยข worth of strongly felt opinion...
Meir-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gabor Szabo Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:52 PM To: Perl in Israel Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] Perl news poll - your quick help is needed! On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Meir Guttman <[email protected]> wrote: > Shanna-Tova to all! > > I would only add "None of the above" to 'Where do you get your Perl related > news from?' Interesting point. Do you mean you have other sources to get Perl related news or that you just don't think there is anything interesting to read? Or something else? in any case thanks for your feedback. Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.914 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3917 - Release Date: 09/24/11 21:34:00 _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
