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in reply to Re: Tact and the Monastery
in thread Tact and the Monastery

My rule is that a temporary variable is fine if it can be related to the application in some way, and not just an artifact of optimization. One way to tell is if you can give it a truly meaningful name. If you can't, see if you can eliminate it.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker