[EMAIL PROTECTED] (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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ;) -- Seeya, Paul _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/