From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 22:11:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation: fix linkgit references
Message-ID: <20160504221127.GB26339@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX4dYjHETCyMFQngBKoS80gkmcAZKKYc0VkE0ufaAg-gZg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:54:52PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> >   my @files = map { chomp; $_ } `git ls-files`;
> 
> As a minor sidenote you can equivalently write that as:
> 
>     chomp(my @files = `git ls-files`);
> 
> I.e. chomp itself when given a list will chomp each item of the list.
> So no need for a map.

Right, thanks, that is more readable. I use the map form reflexively
because I am often doing stuff like:

  my @list = do {
    open(my $fh, '<', $fn);
    map { chomp; $_ }
  };

(or replacing "do" with an actual function which is returning a
grotesque pipeline of grep/map, etc).

-Peff