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I like seeing the names of unitialised variables (Score:2)
I voted "none of the above" because my favourite thing is the way unitialised variables are now named, whenever possible:
It's already saved me time today. Thanks Dave [iabyn.com] for making this work.
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That's a great feature, and I definitely think it should've made the list, as it's my number two feature. It's close to //, but I just have too much perl 5 code which says defined $foo ? $foo : $bar.
I think I'd probably rate the proper reporting of uninitialized variables higher, except I've done without for so long, I rarely encounter that problem anymore. But the defined check warts have remained year after year - it isn't problem code to be fixed, except that it bothers my code sense and I'm just tired