Re: [FWP] Goal oriented programming

["Edward M. Perry" <eperry@learjet.com>]

> You might understand if I rewrite it with normal parens, which
> were made unnecessary by the sub prototypes.
> 
> 	foo( 1, bar( 2, foo( 3, bar( 4 ) ) ) );
> 
> Normal nested subroutine calls.  No wierd Perlish inverted syntax.
> It would look exactly the same in C.  The point is, of course,
> that things don't necessarily get executed in lexical order, nor
> should they be expected to.  If you couldn't do this, you'd have
> to use lots of temporary variables:
> 
> 	$t1 = bar(4);
> 	$t2 = foo( 3, $t1 );
> 	$t3 = bar( 2, $t2 );
> 	foo( 1, $t3 );
> 
> and this is what the opcodes generated by the compiler are doing.
> 
> John Porter

I understood it fine. I wasn't discussing nested subroutines. Their fun.

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