develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from October 2003

Re: new slurp module

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Dave Rolsky
Date:
October 24, 2003 20:14
Subject:
Re: new slurp module
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.58.0310242212570.26378@urth.org
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Abigail wrote:

> > make some of the code generated by newer programmers cleaner (e.g.,
> > one-line calls instead of 10-line loops), and also by helping the
> > more advanced programmers use some of the more advanced techniques
> > (such as the map, above). At present, neither is easy.
>
> chopchop would also be very valuable in helping make some of the code
> generated by newer programmers cleaner. It won't help the more advanced
> programmers, but then, neither will File::Slurp.

Well, I think both help advanced programmers in that no matter how
advanced you are there's no need to rewrite the same 2-5 line snippets
over and over and over.  But that's not an argument for putting this in
the code, just an argument that it's useful for both noobs and l33ts ;)


-dave

/*=======================
House Absolute Consulting
www.houseabsolute.com
=======================*/

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About