On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:37:29PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Iain Truskett wrote:
> > Lexical filehandles.
>
> Why is that so important?
Because globals are bad, and lexicals are not global.
> > No ampersands when
> > calling functions in the ordinary case.
>
> That's style
No, thats _semantics_, using the ampersand _means_ something
different from not using the ampersand.
> and hardly a matter of grave importance.
Beginners should take all the help they can get, prototype checking
can help catch mistakes.
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