On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 10:32 , Connie Chan wrote:
> This post is not talking about $b++, but I suddenly recalled a memory... > once upon > a time, a perl guy told me should avoid to use $a and $b as a var, because > we will > use this for sorting an numeric array ( i.e. $a<=>$b )... and.. that's > all. quite well played!!!! What we 'play with' in demo code should never be confused with what we should DO with Production Grade Code.... the second most important rule - in the long run - is that one should name variables in a way that will help you remember WHY you are looking at $got_back_from_FunkCall remember folks we paid extra to get that "_" accepted as 'internal' to the 'variable name' - and not as an 'error' case.... ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]