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map { require Net::DNS } 1;

Is that a map in void context? Nasty and evil.

I believe that's a minimal demonstration of a bug, rather than "real" code.

On the subject of while(<>) vs. while(my $line = <>), I tend to prefer the former:

If I don't have to do much processing for each line, it's usually much nicer to work on $_, as Juerd points out.
If I do have a lot of work to do, it's usually in a subroutine call, where this sort of thing isn't an issue (since the scope has changed).

I haven't really thought about it, but if a loop's so complex that you have to assign to an explicit iterator variable just to figure out what's going on (as opposed to a loop where defaulting to $_ would be inappropriate for other reasons), it's probably an indication that the loop needs simplifying.

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Re: Re(2): while(<>) { ... } considered harmful by IlyaM (Parson) on Sep 08, 2002 at 19:28 UTC
I believe that's a minimal demonstration of a bug, rather than "real" code. You are right. Real code looks like: `my @other_connectors = map $ad_obj->connector(field => $_), qw(header description region country state);` [download] No require on the surface. It was deeply hidden in one of method calls. I though it was just a Perl bug when I got that error for first time. -- Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)	[reply] [d/l]

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by IlyaM (Parson) on Sep 08, 2002 at 19:28 UTC

I believe that's a minimal demonstration of a bug, rather than "real" code.

You are right. Real code looks like:


    my @other_connectors = map $ad_obj->connector(field => $_),
                       qw(header description region country state);
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