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		kbenson on Nov 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Perl source code from 2005 Needs more maps and greps. :) Seriously though, I use maps and greps a lot now, often chained to transform a data structure from one type to another. I'm annoyed when I have to drop to a for(each) loop.

nikatwork on Nov 1, 2013 | [–]

Yeah maps are awesome! I only changed the conditionals and nothing else, to show how easy it is to flatten deeply-nested logic.

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