Pod::Parser Notes
Pod::Parser Notes -> Some of my co-workers noticed the p5p weekly summary discussing (among other things) Pod::Parser. They mentioned it to me, and said they thought it cast me in an unfavorable light. So I’d like to clear up a…
Program Repair Shop and Red Flags
What’s wrong with this picture? -> What’s wrong with this picture? Reading the Input Computing Average and Total Times Sort Order Printing the Report Red Flags Get Rid of Array Size Variables Use Compound Data Structures Instead of Variable Families…
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In Defense of Coding Standards
How to Create Coding Standards that Work One of the things that we love most about Perl is its flexibility, itssimilarity to natural language, and the fact that There’s More Than One Way To Do It. Of course, when…
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Sins of Perl Revisited
Sins of Perl Revisited -> Sins of Perl Revisited Implicit Behaviors and Hidden Context Dependencies To Paren || ! To Paren? Global Variables References vs. Non-references No Prototypes No Compiler Support for I/O or Regex Objects Haphazard Exception Model New…
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Bless My Referents
Introduction Damian Conway is the author of the newly released Object Oriented Perl, the first of a new series of Perl books from Manning. Object-oriented programming in Perl is easy. Forget the heavy theory and the sesquipedalian jargon: classes…
