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[pozorvlak]

I've been writing some Perl code recently, and a couple of ideas have occurred to me.

1. Closures are great when you have several behaviours which can all vary independently; objects are great when you have several behaviours that must all vary in sync with one another. Put another way: if your problem is combinatorial explosion of objects, try using

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[necaris]

+1 to your second point -- I've not thought about it exactly that way but I have certainly experienced that "working on housekeeping stuff and letting the tough things percolate in your L2 cache" effect :-)

[anonymous]

'bg'-ing thought processes is a form of problem solving I'm very much in favour of, although I generally find option (b) to be more effective than doing housekeeping.

what works for you, etc.

-mat

[pozorvlak]

Option (b) can be pretty effective for me, but only if I've previously devoted enough thought to the problem. Doing related housekeeping tasks isn't as good at building up thought-hours as working directly on the problem, but it does help. Several good ideas occurred to me as a result of the housekeeping/doing something completely different combo.