--- Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:42:33AM -0700, Paul wrote:
> > If you use "or" instead of "||" you can reduce the "line noise" by
> > taking out the parens.
> >
> > open(FILE, $filename)
> > || die("Unable to open file \"$filename\": \l$!.\n");
> >
> > becomes
> >
> > open FILE, $filename
> > or die "Unable to open file \"$filename\": \l$!.\n";
>
> Personally, I prefer the "noisy" version, though I consider it
> anything but noisy. Perhaps it's because 'or' came sometime after I
> learned Perl, but mostly it's because it serves to delineate what's
> what. This may be an artifact of my C experience, or my penchant to
> use parens in order to give visual seperation from one function call
> to another.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. =o)
In this case, I don't really think it matters much.
It's more important to be comfortable with it that to stress over a few
characters that don't change the operation of the program when taken
together. ;o]
> TIMTOWTDI
lol -*AB*-so-lute-ly. >:o)
That's like, I personally *prefer* cuddled else's
} else {
instead of
}
else
}
To me, it looks cleaner, though Larry doesn't like it.
Mostly, I figure it's just better to be consistent, so the next guy to
read your code knows what to expect! :o)
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