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Article #4347Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
From: Kwin Kramer
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:21
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:21
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Tom Christiansen wrote:
> The "when it's not possible case" is demonstrated here:
>
> while (<>) { # YANETUT
> s/^(([A-Z].*?)(:.*?)*?)(:\s*)?\n//
> and ($3 || $4 ? $card : $sect) = $1;
> next if /^\s*[=-]/;
> for (split /\n(?= \S|\+)/) {
> s/\s+/ /g; s/^ //;
> $new = s/^\+\s+// ? '+' : '';
> next if $opt_n and !$new;
> s/([a-z]\.) ([A-Z])/$1\n$2/g if $opt_s;
> if ( ($opt_e ? $card : $_) =~ /$query/o ||
> (!$opt_e && $opt_h && $card =~ /$query/o))
> >>>> {
> s/\n/ /g if $opt_s;
> $matches++;
> write;
> ($psect, $pcard) = ($sect, $card);
> }
> }
> }
>
I love Perl. It's my favorite language, etc. But perhaps the above code
fragment doesn't really help with the readability argument <grin>.
Kwin
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