Re^2: AUTOLOAD for variables?


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Re^2: AUTOLOAD for variables?

by dpuu (Chaplain)

on Jul 08, 2004 at 06:00 UTC ( [id://372678]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I like the trick but, unfortunately, the evil of my users far surpasses it. Its not uncommon to see code such as:

  my $value= ${ uc join "_", @$reg_spec{ qw( device reg field ) } };
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You really don't want to see some of the more nasty code. Honest. Especially not the 70000 line regex (its one saving grace is the /x modifier). And perhaps not the script that parses another script's --verbose output. Or perhaps ...

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Re^3: AUTOLOAD for variables?
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jul 08, 2004 at 13:22 UTC

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