Quote #272
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
More from Larry Wall
- Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
- Remember though that THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
- In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
- The autodecrement is not magical.
- If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
- *** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'. if /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
- Help save the world!
- When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.