Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

> Am I reading this right?  Are you actually defending the lowest common
> denominator of language design?  The paragraph above 

Not language design but coding in an appropriate subset. 

English and Perl are both special because TIMTOWTDI. 
 
My personal toolkit at the office is a more HOPish style than things I turn 
over to Production Support, and my home scripts are looser dialect yet - just 
as my English dialect is freer with friends than with VPs or Grandmothers, IM 
looser than email than Memo. 
Nor do I use the full range of literary English vocabulary in multiethnic 
business context

Inside a "do not touch" magic module, map away. 
In code for yourself or for Perl Monks, to show the power of the language, map 
away. 
In code to be maintained by low cost corporate maintenance programmers, the the 
readable subset is responsible to your customer. 

A corporate style guide based on Damian's PBP may well restrict 'map' usage to 
specific well understood cases - or may assume all new hires are issued a copy 
of Dominus's HOP. But it should choose, and be consistently observed. 


Bill Ricker, typing with thumbs ...