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Re: Thoughts on maintaining perl

From:
Chip Salzenberg
Date:
May 29, 2000 19:50
Subject:
Re: Thoughts on maintaining perl
Message ID:
20000529194956.U9153@perlsupport.com
According to David H. Adler:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:27:51PM -0400, Ben_Tilly@trepp.com wrote:
> >   print join ",", map { &{$field_info{$_}{format}}($deal) } @fields;
> 
> The question that springs to my mind is "was there a comment
> explaining this?"

I hope not.  Comments are for explaining "why", not "how" ... if I had
to document the mechanics of all map expressions, I'd stop using them.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K



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