> The other side to this argument is that because this is bad and wrong
> (something you apparently are okay with agreeing with), we as perl
> programmers have an interest in discouraging it, because that just
> increases the chance that someone will see it, think it's a good idea,
> and then use it in code that we later on will have to clean up when it
> breaks. You can do what you want, but saying "help me do this the wrong
> way" isn't going to encourage many people at all to help. Propagating
> bad coding practices like this just ends up hurting everyone.
That's, well, one extremely huge exagerration :) Srsly, what kind of argument
is that? People also discourage others from writing perl code for exactly same
reasons :)))
And no, I never agreed that this is bad or wrong. It's neither good or right,
for the record. It's just code that works.
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Sincerely,
Dmitry Karasik
