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• Commented on How each drove me crazy
  Also see Do not use each...
• Commented on Carrying (mini)CPAN
  I will think about creating a wrapper. At least your comment sparked me to also have a look at the command line options of minicpan: -l, -r and -C. Thanks brian....
• Posted Carrying (mini)CPAN to fishy

  Thanks to minicpan, I keep a local copy of the latest versions hosted on CPAN.
  My .minicpanrc file:
  

  
  
  local: /home/netbook/minicpan/miniCPAN_20140405/
  
  remote: http://your.favorite.cpan.mirror/
  
  also_mirror: indic…

• Posted Computer languages comparison. What else? to fishy

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  about comparing percentages I have to contribute my…

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• Aristotle commented on How each drove me crazy

  Actually this is a case where each could be fine, because the loop body is not making any calls to other code that could be messing with the hash’s iterator. He just has to reset the iterator every time he wants to start over:

  sub test_it {
      my $entry = shift;
      keys %regex; # reset iterator
      while( my($type, $regex) = each %regex) {
          return 1 if $entry =~ /$regex/;
      }
      return 0;
  }

  Of course since he doesn’t use the keys in this example, it’s a pointless exercise to use each rather than values.…