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The lack of whitespace is maddening. It contributes to the reputation that Perl is write once read never. That "print and return with postfix" is the gold star
by ionforce 11y ago
The lack of whitespace is maddening. It contributes to the reputation that Perl is write once read never.
That "print and return with postfix" is the gold star. /s
- tyingq 11y agoThe context being a deliberate effort to make it compact. You can abuse features in most languages and make it hard to read.
- ionforce 11y agoWho cares about "compactness"? You weren't golfing. It just sticks out as bad code.
- tyingq 11y agoNot my code, it was copied (note the attribution) from a specific context where somebody cared about compactness. Edit: Perl's also not the only language that supports the comma operator, predicate if, ternary, and other things that seem to bother you.