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Testing against implentations (Score:1)
One of my beefs about perl is that it doesn't come with a good interactive environment (unlike python). I frequently test things against an implementation, just to see whether something works or not; I usually go to the documentation afterwords. :-)
I must say though, that hash slices are one of those things that I nearly always avoid if possible; they're just too visually cluttered.
Re:Testing against implentations (Score:2)
It's not a very good interactive environment, but you can use the debugger with a command like
perl5.6.1 -de 1. I do it often, including yesterday when playing with slices.I haven't completely decided if I should avoid hash slices or not. I'll agree they seem cluttered. I'll have to wait until I'm maintaining this code three years from now to decide. :) For now I'm using them because they seem less cluttered than the alternative.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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