> He shows a piece of code that uses a regular expression over implicitly-defined variables.
His snippet is perfectly idiomatic perl code and I find it easily legible. His point is that it's pretty hard to parse that without having already spent some hours with the perldocs. Fair enough.
Re:Is Perl Difficult?
by initself on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @02:36AM
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It might be 'perfectly idiomatic' but jrockway's code is much more typical of what a Perl programmer who wished to communicate clear ideas would write.
His snippet is perfectly idiomatic perl code and I find it easily legible. His point is that it's pretty hard to parse that without having already spent some hours with the perldocs. Fair enough.