[Mastering-perl] New Chapters for Mastering Perl

[brian d foy]

On 4/17/06, Vonnahme, Nathan <nathan.vonnahme at bannerhealth.com> wrote:

> Hmm, maybe "Refactoring WITH Perl" would be more interesting; siccing
> Perl's regexp and text munging support on code written in any
> language... dunno though, for me in practice my editor's search/replace
> is usually sufficient for the mechanics, it's learning when to recognize
> the need for refactoring, and balancing "good enough for this iteration"
> with "it really should be this way" that is the hard part.

A simple textual analysis isn't going to work, though. It's going to
have a tough time dealing with macros, for instance. PPI can just
barely do it with Perl, for instance.

That might be a nice topic for another book. :)


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