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> He shows a piece of code that uses a regular expression over implicitly-defined variables.

His snippet is perfectly idiomatic perl code and I find it easily legible. His point is that it's pretty hard to parse that without having already spent some hours with the perldocs. Fair enough.




It might be 'perfectly idiomatic' but jrockway's code is much more typical of what a Perl programmer who wished to communicate clear ideas would write.




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