Excerpt of message (sent 19 June 2001) by Shelly Spearing:
> I tend to backslash just about all punctuation marks, especially those that
> have special meaning(s) in perl. Thus I would have written:
> $newsFile =~ s/\<\/?B\>//ig;
>
>
> In general, is this a good habit on my part, or is it frowned upon because
> it clutters the code?
I'd try to prevent what camel calls the "leaning toothpick syndrome":
$newsFile =~ s.</?b>..ig;
(Use any other character than '.' if you like, just not one that you
need in the expression.) But I usually lean on the terse side in my
code.
Christian
