I know that I've done plenty of those doh things myself,
but I seem to have erased them from my memory, so I'll
have to talk about other people's code I've run into at
work
;)
Recently I ran across the efforts of an apparently
homicidal predecessor when I was asked to fix a
project that contained a line that looked a bit like this:
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:$dbm:$db:$server", $user, $pwd)
&& die ("Unable to connect to database $db: $DBI::errstr\n");
I might have ruled that an accidental death, but it was
really the start of a rampage. In the project which
consisted of perhaps 10 files, this was done every single
time that 'die' was used.
