Re: learn.perl.org

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:37:29PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Iain Truskett wrote:


> > Lexical filehandles.
> 
> Why is that so im****tant? 


Because globals are bad, and lexicals are not global.


> > No ampersands when
> > calling functions in the ordinary case.
> 
> That's style 


No, thats _semantics_, using the ampersand _means_ something
different from not using the ampersand.


> and hardly a matter of grave im****tance. 


Beginners should take all the help they can get, prototype checking 
can help catch mistakes.


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