Re^5: How to map function name to coderef?

[TJPride]

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[GrandFather]

At the risk of carrying this thread too far (and thus missing the best stopping point):

There is always a best solution to any problem.

Ahh, that is the notion I'd like to disabuse you of because holding such a notion can be a big impediment to getting any work done, or even providing a suitable solution to a problem.

There are several problems with seeking an ideal "best solution".

1. There may be many "almost best" solutions that are entirely suitable for some particular task. Seeking the "best" solution may waste a great deal of time where accepting a slightly less ideal solution provides the same effective performance and gets the job done in a timely fashion.
2. There may be many essentially equivalent "best" solutions so choosing the "one best" solution may not be possible.
3. There may be no "best" (or even any) solution at all so seeking one is futile.
4. The problem specification may be so poor that it is not possible to determine where a best solution may lie.

The last is often encountered on PerlMonks, especially in nodes that ask "What is the best way to ...".

TIMTOWTDI is a common Perl mantra, often with the follow up "and most of them are wrong". A better codicil may be: "and none of them are best". Neither codicil need be correct, but they both contain a large grain of truth.

[Anonymous Monk]

Ahh, that is the notion I'd like to disabuse you of because holding such a notion can be a big impediment to getting any work done, or even providing a suitable solution to a problem.

Perhaps you have forgotten all about Re: regex to find vowels in anyorder?

[TJPride]

Arguing over the philosophical implications of the ideal solution is also a big impediment to getting any work done, heh. You win, I have better things to do right now. Perhaps we may joust again in another thread.