Only one thing I'd mention:

Under "Subroutine Arguments Handling" you offer $var=shift; as a
better alternative to $var=$_[n]  - which it is - but it is a
(admittedly slight) performance hit vs ($var,$var2,...)=...@_;


Otherwise, pretty useful info.  I'm forwarding the link to the rest of
my group. :-)

Jonas Bull




On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10-10-08 06:10 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>>
>> It's just that EOF is customary for that (presumable back to its root from
>> shell).
>
> FYI:  Actually, EOF dates all the way back to JCL.  The alternative is EOD,
> End Of Data.
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