[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) writes: > Don't type "my $self = shift" (or shift anything else) without > practice. It is too easy to typo and leave the 'f' out of > 'shift'.
I see no harm than that this will cause an occasional laugh. > For some reason I am more prone to making this > mistake in front of an audience than when coding alone. You can get treatment for that :-). Seriously: I am a very bad typist but a fast corrector. I've never had any problems or weird reactions to whatever garbage sometimes appeared on the screen. -- Johan