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Comment by forgotmypw17 | Hacker News Reader

I do this sort of thing quite often, more often than not:

    my $foo = GetFoo();
    my $bar = GetBar($foo);
    my $baz = GetBaz($bar);

As opposed to this:

    my $baz = GetBaz(GetBar(GetFoo()));

It takes a smidgen longer to write, but is much easier to read and understand when I'm looking at it 2 days later.

Check if your language has a pipe operator. You may be able to do something like this:

  my $baz = GetFoo()
    |> GetBar
    |> GetBaz;

Thanks for the idea, I'll consider it.

One of the other reasons I use this style is because it allows me to port code easily between different languages.

For example, aside from the "my" keyword, I can pretty much copy and paste the same code between PHP and Perl.