ch19.011_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 19 of "Perl Best Practices" ##
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##  See: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html  ##
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# Standard modules...
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;

use List::Util qw( sum );

# Create a variable whose value cycles from zero to five...
use Tie::Cycle;
tie my $next_index, 'Tie::Cycle', [0..5];
 
# Read in monthly results...
my @cyclic_buffer;
while (my $next_val = prompt 'Next: ') {
    # Saving them in a six-month cyclic buffer...
    $cyclic_buffer[$next_index] = $next_val;
 
    # And printing the moving average each month...
    print 'Half-yearly moving average: ', 
          sum(@cyclic_buffer)/@cyclic_buffer, "\n";
}