Gnustavo

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• Commented on Tie::File don't while(<>)
  I think "sort @file" should be simply "sort", right? Moreover, if you're useing strict that %seen hash must have been declared above. I usually prefer to use List::MoreUtils::uniq method instead because it seems simpler and more intuitive. I've never used...
• Commented on Ditching A Language
  Joel Spolsky also argued against big rewrites: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html...

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• Cosimo Streppone commented on Ditching A Language

  Bjørn you are now officially one of my heroes :-)

• Steven Haryanto commented on Tie::File don't while(<>)

  One of the advantages of Tie::File is that you don't have to slurp all the file contents into memory. You can just push() or do a while ($item = each(@ary)), for example to work item by item.

  On the other hand, it's slow compared to low-level routines like open/read/>.

  The each(ARRAY) is Perl 5.12+ only.

• Jesse Shy commented on Tie::File don't while(<>)

  @Gnustavo What? Not use strict and warnings, are you crazy? Yes, there are a couple of setup lines like that that I did not show. And you are correct on the sort, I changed this a little to protect the innocent and did not copy it correctly. @Steven, where I am using this, slurping the file could cause out of memory issues in some cases.