Quote #273

Remember though that THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.

More from Larry Wall

  1. Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
  2. The autodecrement is not magical.
  3. Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
  4. *** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'. if /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
  5. In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
  6. When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
  7. If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
  8. But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstr…

All Larry Wall quotes