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blackoutdonnie
Jan 7, 2004

cooking with gas

floWenoL posted:

I disagree. His way reduces the time in which the variable is in an "invalid state", which arguably makes it clearer.

This. It's a good approach that I'm surprised more people don't use. It may not be immediately clear for some novices, but it's not any more cryptic than the rest of perl. Plus, if you're like me OP, I bet you "snip" off the really useful do blocks into full blown subroutines. This sort of thing seems perfectly natural to me.

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