RE: sort by extension

From: Mark A Galbreath (GalbreathMA_at_state.gov)
Date: 07/29/04 

To: "'perl.org'" <perl.org@jpw3.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:34:44 -0400

But trinaries are so much more elegant than if/else statements.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:james@grayproductions.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 12:33 PM
To: perl.org
Cc: Perl Beginners
Subject: Re: sort by extension

On Jul 29, 2004, at 11:23 AM, perl.org wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:08:20 -0400 (EDT), Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote
>>
>> That's why he broke it down. Is the map() really the problem, or is
>> it the regex, the ?: operator, and the two array references?
>
> All of the above ;), but now that I think about it the map looks
> easiest, then
> ?: (which I also prefer not to use, along with unless). At least map
> is a
> word instead of a (cryptic) token.

Just for the sake of completeness.

COND ? TRUE CODE : FALSE CODE

is generally the same as

if (COND) { TRUE CODE; }
else { FALSE CODE; }

James 

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