[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Stephen Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> 1. Coding Standards
>>
>> I take it as a given that we need some coding standards for the
>> P5EE project if/when we produce code.
>>
>> * Does anyone have a URL for a Perl Coding Standards doc?
>> (similar to the Sun Java Coding Standard)
>>
>> The only document I know of is "perldoc perlstyle".
>> If I don't get any feedback on this, I will start a coding standards
>> page that starts with "perlstyle".
>
> There are some, um, forceful recommendations in the 2.0 slashode
> which I quite liked and a few other people didn't :-)
There were some really fsckwitted premature optimizations in that
document for starters. Deprecating 'my $self = shift;' *still* stands
as my highwater mark for dumbass manoeuvres. All of a sudden you're
stuck doing '$self->SUPER::method(@_[1..$#_])' and other uglinesses...
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
