Posted by Toby A Inkster on 01/19/08 23:44

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> And apart from reminding me of 'pregnancy' how much more readable the
> PHP is!

Frankly I find the Perl version far more elegant. The lack of redundant
quote marks and nested brackets if far more pleasing to the eye IMHO.

Indeed, in Perl you could use:

print "match\n" if $foo !~ /bar/;

or even:

print "match\n" unless $foo =~ /bar/;

Either seem pretty readable to me.

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