Re: [MacPerl] Book & script

[kpreid@ibm.net (Kevin Reid)]

> Having been a programmer for 28 years, it never ceases to distress
> me how little maturity is shown by most modern programming languages.
> In several instances during the writing of my archive script, I
> was uncertain how to implement a construct in Perl, so I tried what
> looked like the "obvious" way.  I'm not talking about "if-else" or
> parameter passing, either, but rather complex stuff involving file
> handles and split functions.  Astonishingly (to this cynic), my
> guesses were correct every time.  To me, this means that someone
> went to a lot of trouble designing the language and its parser so
> that they act sensibly. (duh!).

Perhaps you could provide some details?

I'm curious about the exact situations where the "obvious" thing worked
when you thought it might not.

-- 
  Kevin Reid.      |         Macintosh.
   "I'm me."       |      Think different.

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