At 10:14 AM 3/6/00 -0500, Carl Friedberg wrote:
>Hi, let's see, is it time for a "best coding practices" document?
>
>I know that one of the virtues of perl is the complete chaos which it
>thrives on. However, Sebastian's point is well taken. I know everyone has
>more important things to do, but maybe we can think about a set of "coding
>standards"; and such a standard out to extend to the entire perl source
>tree. That might help to avoid tromping on such user favorites as symbols or
>logicals like "test", "temp", etc., etc. Just a thought, and it might take a
>lot onger than 5.6.1...
Works. One of my big ToDo list items is a metaconfigish thing written in
perl to autogenerate subconfigure.com so the non-VMS folks can mess with it
when Configure changes. You'd be amazed at how tired I am of last-minute
patches over new config.h substitutions... :)
Dan
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