Re: "Cleverness" from HOP

[stevemayes]

Having read the comments I've got to say that I feel a lot of people are equating 'clever' with 'complex'.

To write something that is clear, maintainable and does something difficult efficiently is, by my definition, damned clever!

I am new to Perl but I am not new to writing, and this is a truth I feel carries over from writing.

[gwadej]

It's possible that the reason for this definition of cleverness has to do with the amount of 'overly complex' code written by programmers impressed with their own 'cleverness'.

With that in mind, I would suggest that the code you defined as clever is actually good code.