On Jan 21, 2008 10:35 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21/01/2008, Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jan 21, 2008 10:11 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The best practice according to the Perl Best Practices book is to use
> > > @{ $hash_ref }{ @keys }. (Pages 227-229).
> >
> > Not to start a flame war, but I'd suggest reading that book for ideas
> > and the discussion that might ensue, not to be taken as gospel truth
> > about True Style.
>
> It's not gospel, but it made me a better Perl programmer, and a better
> programmer overall, which is the important thing.
>
> I implement its ideas most of the time and disregard them when they
> get in the way.

Good, that's the best way to use a style guide :-)

My note was a reaction to the fact many discussions get *stopped* when
someone says "According to PBP", because of its authoritative name
(and, well, author).

Incidentally, I tend to use the explicit @[EMAIL PROTECTED] myself.
But not the religiously scattered whitespace...

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