-=> Jasen Betts wrote to All <=-

 JB> shouldn't that "while" be

 JB>  while( defined $current=pop)

 'tim toadie'

 which is the generally accepted pronunciation for TMTOWTDI

 which stands for 'There's More Than One Way To Do It'

 if you find/think of a way to do something a different way...and it works
 then you are a getting a handle on perl's 'magic'


 JB> That aside I'm starting to see how someone could consider writing
 JB> FIDO applications in perl,  pack and unpack look real handy...

 does anybody have a handy link for the msg/pkt code i worked on? that
 has some 'good' examples of using pack/unpack in fido code...


 JB> hmm, lists can contain not only 0 but also undef.
 JB> maybe this would be better

 i only use defined/undef when having a variable set to 0 won't work in the
 code (ie. the variable needs NOT to exist)

 i have some nodelist reading code that uses that philosophy...


 JB> please let me know if I've made any mistakes.

 the only mistakes you will make in perl, are the ones that make will fail
 to compile (or a logic error that results in bug in your program). as far
 as i'm concerned you can't make a perl coding error other than that...

... http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1

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