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(offtopic) perl verbosity
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Gavin Smith |
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(offtopic) perl verbosity |
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Mon, 7 Jan 2019 17:20:31 +0000 |
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 07:05:40AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> (Too bad Perl does not have an operator similar to Swift's "?." or Ruby's
> "&.", that propagate nil from left to right.)
I know, the texi2any code is like this everywhere. C code doing the
same thing is often more concise than the Perl, except for string
manipulation, because all the fields of a structure are pre-declared.