On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:13:51 -0700 John SJ Anderson <geneh...@genehack.org> wrote:
> You should also know that, Shawn's endorsement not withstanding, many > people consider the advice given in Perl Best Practices to be a bit of > a mixed bag. There are some good tips in there, but they're mixed in > with a bunch of fairly strongly opinionated directions and some stuff > that's just badly outdated at this point in time. There are many things in it, like "Don't use the two-argument open," which are relevant. part of the problem is that many of the older Perl sources are out of date. PBP does tell what to use instead. -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/