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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:54:27PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > small incremental improvement to [read|writ]ability > > writability: > > one less variable name to have to remember not to collide with I think you have this one backwards. This is one giant, ambiguous global variable whose value and meaning changes constantly from statement to statement. Think $_ but worse. You have to constantly worry about adding in a new statement for fear it will alter the meaning of $IT and break code below you. > readability: > > keyword "it" means look at very recent code, instead of starting > at the top of the block and reading down to find what $foo > is (trivially solvable by reading backwards...) This is better solved by using smaller scopes/subroutines and meaningful variable names. -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One Maybe they hooked you up with one of those ass-making magazines. -- brian d. foy as misheard by Michael G SchwernThread Previous | Thread Next