Re: perl

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On 22 Dec 2006, at 11:10, Earle Martin wrote:

> The software that I hate the most is often the software I have to do
> maintenance on. I'm a 100% Perl guy, and spend a lot of time with
> other people's Perl. One of my pet hates is seeing this:
>
>>                 for ($i = 1 ; $i < scalar(@ARGV) ; $i++)
>>                 {
>>                         open INPUT,$ARGV[i];
>
> Perl is not C. Yes, it lets you write do this. But you shouldn't. Why?
> Because it has useful constructs like "foreach" that let you avoid
> hateful neolithic code like this.

We've just started enforcing perlcritic which has led to some  
interesting
debate about fixing such shonky code at the risk of breaking it.

One of my favourites is "return;" vs. "return undef;".

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• Earle Martin 11:10 on 22 Dec 2006
  • Dave Hodgkinson 11:20 on 22 Dec 2006
  • Sean Conner 20:29 on 22 Dec 2006
  • Yoz Grahame 09:09 on 26 Dec 2006
    • A. Pagaltzis 16:11 on 26 Dec 2006
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    • Sean Conner 00:31 on 27 Dec 2006
    • Jonathan Stowe 13:25 on 28 Dec 2006
• Peter da Silva 12:48 on 22 Dec 2006
  • Aaron Crane 19:00 on 22 Dec 2006
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