Re: Generate an associative array from a file

On Feb 29, 7:28 am, ccc31807 <carte...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 29, 8:58 am, Peter Makholm <pe...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ccc31807 <carte...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
This is what Perl does, for goodness sake!

Forcing you to reinvent existing wheel? But why oh why?

No, not reinventing the wheel. Just using the wheel for its intended
purpose.

Actually, writing a module to do what Perl will natively do anyway
seems reinventing the wheel to me. If you can do something directly
with a function, or indirectly with a module that might call the
function or duplicate its functionality, why not do it directly?

CC

If you follow that logic, then you're also saying that a very large
percentage of the modules on cpan are reinventing the wheel and should
not be used. To me, that seems like pretty flaky logic. It sounds
like you don't believe in the idea of code reuse.
.

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