Re: Overlapping RFCs 135 138 164

>>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[email protected]> writes:

  >> ($foo = $bar) =~ s/x/y/; will never make much sense to me. 
  TC> What about these, which are much the same thing in that they all
  TC> use the lvaluability of assignment:

  TC>     chomp($line = <STDIN>);
  TC>     ($foo = $bar) += 10;

that should be a much clearer:

	$foo = $bar + 10;

  TC>     ($foo += 3) *= 2;

that is way too many assignment ops. better is the normalized

	$foo = ($foo + 3) * 2;

  TC>     $n = select($rout=$rin, $wout=$win, $eout=$ein, 2.5);

who uses select directly anymore? use a module! :)

uri

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