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But isn't perl's slogan "There's more than one way to do it"?

Indeed it is. You recognized that your way wasn't the best way, and you asked for advice. If you recognize that lots of people really know how to program Perl well, that those same people recommend strict, and if you ask those people for advice, why in the world wouldn't you take their advice?

Suppose you misspelled just one of your variables in the middle of sub_b_sin(). How would you catch that? With strict, it's easy.

You're getting free advice from people who had to learn Perl the hard way, often before there were such niceties as the Monastery and comp.lang.perl.misc. If you complain about it, expect the price to rise.

I'll cut short this lecture and help you with the indenting issue. Have a read through perldoc perlstyle. Then take a look at perltidy. It's a wonderful program that nicely formats source code. With a little experience, you'll find that good indentation really contributes to the readability of a program.

Good luck.

In reply to On Free Advice by chromatic
in thread Trig in Perl by dr_lambado

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