Re^3: How to write better code?

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Your implementation using map instead of foreach is slightly more readable, but will be more cumbersome to maintain and debug if additional parsing is required. It is likely a short-term win that will result in a comment block that is larger than the code after a few upgrades are made.

Another weakness of using map for this is that CGI allows a parameter to have multiple values, but the code you provided will only use the last value.

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Re^4: How to write better code? by johngg (Canon) on Dec 04, 2006 at 20:21 UTC
If the task becomes more complex then I would almost certainly rewrite the code with more explicit control structures and descriptive variable names rather than jump through hoops making the `map` fit. I am only throwing away one line, when all's said and done. I agree with your comment about CGI and said as much at the top of my post, which was more a comment on the code snippet itself and it's legibility rather than it's suitability for parsing CGI. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: How to write better code?
by johngg (Canon) on Dec 04, 2006 at 20:21 UTC

map

I agree with your comment about CGI and said as much at the top of my post, which was more a comment on the code snippet itself and it's legibility rather than it's suitability for parsing CGI.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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