On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:19 PM, David Precious
wrote:
> Like most things, TIMTOWTDI, but I believe Perl Best Practices [PBP]
> advises
> against using map in void context.
>
As PBP[1] is encoded in Perl::Critic
map and grep are intended to be pure functions, not mutators. If you want
to iterate
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:38:24 -0700
SSC_perl wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> > code like you will have to read it after an all-night party
> > (some day, you will).
>
> Those days are over, but point taken! ;)
They're never over but they do get farther apart.
On 09/30/2014 05:08 PM, SSC_perl wrote:
Is the output of these two lines equivalent?
map { $hash->{$_} = shift @record } @{$self->{'FIELDNAMES'}};
$hash->{$_} = shift @record foreach @{$self->{'FIELDNAMES'}};
They appear to be in my testing, but I'd like to make sure.
On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:19 PM, David Precious wrote:
> So, e.g.:
>
> my %fields = map { $_ => shift @record } @{$self->{'FIELDNAMES'}};
>
> ... would make sense, because you're using map to produce the data you
> want, rather than using it instead of a for loop.
Thanks, David. That was an
On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> code like you will have to read it after an all-night party
> (some day, you will).
Those days are over, but point taken! ;)
Thanks,
Frank
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:08:14 -0700
SSC_perl wrote:
> Is the output of these two lines equivalent?
>
> map { $hash->{$_} = shift @record } @{$self->{'FIELDNAMES'}};
>
> $hash->{$_} = shift @record foreach @{$self->{'FIELDNAMES'}};
[...]
> Is one more appropriate than the other in a s
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:08:14 -0700
SSC_perl wrote:
> Is the output of these two lines equivalent?
>
> map { $hash->{$_} = shift @record } @{$self->{'FIELDNAMES'}};
>
> $hash->{$_} = shift @record foreach @{$self->{'FIELDNAMES'}};
>
> They appear to be in my testing, but I'd like to
Is asking a preference-based question appropriate for a beginners list
appropriate?
Question for you: Have you updated your software to have a more modern look
and feel or does it still resemble 1995?
I ask because, in your own words, you said "or is it simply a styling
difference?".
Feedback for
Dear Michael,
I am wrong. [SHAME]
The output of Benchmark is slowest first... whereas I intuitively
thought it would be fastest first. All my conclusions are therefore
wrong, although the differences in speed are still surprising.
Results may change depending on the version of Perl, I am using
Thanks heaps Jonathon and Paul for your help. :)
Regards,
Michael S. E. Kraus
Software Developer
Wild Technology Pty Ltd
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Dear Michael,
None of the above. All your code is calling length() twice per loop.
The best way to write what you want is:
my $max_length = 0;
for my $datum (keys %data) {
my $length = length $datum;
if ($max_length < $length) {
$max_l
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:15:52AM +1100, Michael Kraus wrote:
> Which is better to use, a for/foreach loop or map function when doing
> some basic comparisons and assignments?
>
> E.g.
>
> for my $datum (keys %{$rh_vars}) {
> $max_length = length($datum) if length($datum) > $max_length;
>
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