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RE: RE (tilly) 2: Regarding styleby merlyn (Sage) |
on Oct 25, 2000 at 03:34 UTC ( [id://38253]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Continuing on the diamond theme, I usually flag "dangerous" anything during
code reviews that look like:
Why? Because that program works fine when you run it without command-line arguments. But what happens when some other part of the program needs a command arg for a toggle or something? Oops! And saying "well, sometimes I want to get stuff from files instead of STDIN" doesn't fly, because then you get the extra prompts! For me, the only proper combination is:
In other words, if you're interacting, use the explicit filehandle. Otherwise, suck from diamond. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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