>>>>> "HP" == Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes:
HP> "Uri Guttman" <u...@stemsystems.com> writes: >> yes, i disable syntax coloring since it makes it HARDER for me to >> see HP> [...] HP> I'm terrible about leaving out one of "" '' () {} [] etc.. Emacs catches HP> them and leads me to them pretty quickly with syntax hilight. i keep electric bouncing on. and i use a balanced paren move to find unbalanced pairs on the rare conditions when i need to. HP> my @ar = ( "one", HP> "two". HP> "three", HP> "four", HP> [...] HP> "twenty" HP> ); HP> Doesn't seem all that much more cluttered than: HP> my @ar = qw( one HP> two HP> three HP> four HP> [...] HP> twenty HP> ); then you need better glasses. :) you have all those noisy quotes and commas to scan and skip. qw was added for that reason, lists of tokens are very common. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/