RE: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

["Larry Rosler" <lr@hpl.hp.com>]

> From: Jeff Pinyan [mailto:jeffp@crusoe.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 08:32
> To: fwp@technofile.org
> Subject: Re: [FWP] beauty vs. brains
>
>
> >  $file = do { local $/, <FILE> };
>
> Whoa.  Why don't I just do
>
>   { local $/, $file = <FILE> }

Thanks for drawing attention to a 'fun' idiom that turns out to be a
time-waster.

No one has pointed out that the commas in your code should be
semicolons.  That suppresses some warnings about unparenthesized lists
for 'local', but doesn't affect the results.

--
Larry Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com



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