Tom Kinzer wrote: > > as a matter of style, i think always having them is nice for > maintenance/readability.
I may be wrong, but I think most Perl programmers would disagree. It may be nice for maintenance if your program is to be maintained by a herd of Prolog programmers, but readability is certainly reduced by redundant punctuation. while (<>) { print unless /^#/ } QED Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>