[Israel.pm] Perl Advocacy

[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 27 December 2004 18:10, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Offer Kaye wrote:
> >> Worse than that there is no trim that would remove spaces from the
> >> beginning and the end of a string.
> >
> > I didn't understand this, Gabor. Please explain.
>
> I wrote this for educational reasons.
> Thanks Dov for your solution.
>
> another str_replace [1]
>
> sub str_replace {
>     my ($str, %map) = @_;
>     $str =~ s/(.)/ defined $map{$1} ? $map{$1} : $1 /eg;
>     return $str;
> }
>

Since the pattern match is . which is a single character it will only work if 
the strings to replace are single-charactered. And you should probably use 
"exists" rather than "defined". 

>
> Every language has to decide what size are the building blocks it is
> using and what is the level of abstraction. I think there is no right
> or wrong way. They fit to a different audience and different purposes.
>
> A a native Parrot programmer would say: Perl is just bloated.
>

Parrot?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

>
> BTW Is there a module Functions::PHP that exports those 3000 functions
> PHP has ? If no such module, what about writing one ?
>
>
>
> Gabor
>
> [1] I fear the golfers now
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