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• Sticking Power (Score:1)

  by chromatic (983)

  I think many well-versed Perl hackers can agree that using lexical filehandles is better than passing around raw typeglobs, and that given/when is better than long chains of if/else statements. I'm pretty sure that most of us can agree that a novice Perl programmer should look to the CPAN to solve common problems.

  I'm sure that the definition of "modern" will change over the coming years, but I'm also sure that just as we can look at a piece of code which uses global variables (with perhaps a local or two t
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by dagolden (6584)

    I like the idea of a sort of "Strunk and White" [wikipedia.org] for Perl.

    The way I see this project as different in intent from PBP is that it can be less dogmatic about what is "best" (highly contextual and often idiosyncratic) and yet dogmatic enough about what is "good" (generally accepted) to be a reference for minimum standards or expectations.

    -- dagolden
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by drhyde (1683)

      Expect furious arguments from those who prefer Fowler's [cantrell.org.uk] Modern Perl Usage :-)
      • Re:Sticking Power (Score:1)

        by dagolden (6584) on 2009.01.27 7:50 (#67034) Journal

        As I'm not British, I'll stick with the The Columbia Guide to Standard American English [amazon.com], thank you. :-)

        N.B. It's great fun using it to rebut language pedants at work.

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