Wow this has turned into a monster thread... ouch. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote:
> Hi Sawyer, > Hey. :) The problem is that using my $a and my $b will prevent the built-in $a and > $b > from being used and as a result is a bad idea. We should make sure that > synopses and other code excerpts in the documentation of Perl modules > reflect > the Perl best practices, because less clueful people may be tempted to > duplicate > them in their own code. And then they go to online forums and ask us why > their > code is broken. > > So the lexical "$a" and "$b" here should be replaced with something less > dangerous. > I'm convinced. I would like to retract my disrespectful poor-taste comment I made earlier. And no, I'm not being cynical. :) > > We honestly don't have to comment on *everything* people say and do. > > (and I probably shouldn't have commented on what you said either, so > > apologies for that) > > > > Well, I hope I didn't also make the same mistake (again). > Not in my opinion. Thanks for correcting me. :) s.
