Perl best practices

[Paul Lussier]

kevin_d_clark at comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes:

> Bill Ricker writes:
>
>> I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, "Perl Best
>> Practices", which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style
>> within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context)
>> -- he suggests one style but encourages each group to decide for
>> themselves and take his list of 255 practices as a template for their
>> own local standard.
>
> I will second this.  Great book by a great author.

Ahm, fellas, we've got a fence-post error here :)

This response to Ben is what started all it all:

  Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> writes:

  > "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
  >
  >>   You don't need to put parenthesis around arguments to split, and you
  >> don't need to explicitly specify the default pattern match target
  >> ($_).
  >
  > Unfortunately, you both "don't *need* to" and "*can* do" anything in
  > perl.  Often at the same time!  This is what leads to very difficult
  > to read, and more difficult to maintain perl code.
  [...]
  > I highly recommend Damian Conway's book "Perl Best Practices", which
  > outlines these and many other useful pieces of advice.

So, Kevin is really thirding ;)
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Seeya,
Paul