Re: seeking golfing advice

damien krotkine <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm using this code to get a list of only the odd elements of an
> array. The resulting list must have the same order as the array.
>
> map { state $f; ($_) x (++$f%2) }  @array;

If you want only to get some elements of a list is is much more obvious
to use grep instead of map:

  grep { ++$f%2 } @array

Then use the magical flip-flop variable:
 
  grep { $|-- } @array

And remove unneeded syntax

  grep$|--,@array

//Makholm