in reply to Re^2: Functional Programming & method rewriting
in thread Functional Programming & method rewriting
You're right. And I asked the wrong question; or at least an incomplete one. What I meant to ask was: why type more when you're not gaining anything? Your code is more complex, it's partially duplicated, and it's not very readable. I consider myself a strong Perl programmer (and I realize that assumption can be a dangerous one to start with :-), and I had to sit for a minute before I could figure out what it was that you'd done.Why type more than you need to?This philosophy is one I don't agree with, especially when developing code you are going to have to go back and tweak later.
Every time I've done a quick shift in the middle of a block of code, I've had to go back and change it later. With @args, I might want to later replace that @args with ($gorp,$slug,@args) = shift() for instance. It leaves a place in the code to do that, and I only have to edit one line to make that change.Are you sure you don't mean my (@args) = @_;? shift only ever returns one element, so using it in list context is pointless: ($gorp,$slug,@args) = shift() doesn't do anything to $slug or @args.
I don't mean to grill you. I just want to understand and give some (hopefully friendly) advice.
Update: my 200th node! :-)
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Re^4: Functional Programming & method rewriting
by SpanishInquisition (Pilgrim) on Oct 29, 2004 at 12:50 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2004 at 20:24 UTC | |
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 29, 2004 at 21:06 UTC |
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