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I want to sharpen my own knives

You equate deploying an entire module in order to avoid using a shift operation, with "sharpening your own knives".

More like you want to use disposable plastic spoons.


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Re^7: accessing an environment variable dynamically
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 03, 2013 at 08:52 UTC

    You equate deploying an entire module in order to avoid using a shift operation, with "sharpening your own knives".

    More like you want to use disposable plastic spoons.

    Bit shifting allergy, its why I program perl, not allergic to Spoons at all