OK, so I needed a break last night and I have been watching the
Actor's Studio and its final questionnaire a tad too much lately, so I came up with yet an other
stoopid idea...
The Marcel Perl Questionnaire is a Perl version of the famous (?)
Proust Questionnaire (which was not created by Proust by the way,
he just answered it cleverly). The aim is to come up with a series
of questions that reveal something on the questionnee's.
So here it is, with my answers:
| Favorite Perl Instruction | map | even in void context {grin} |
| Least Favorite Instruction | pack/unpack | Perl Geek Code PU! |
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| Favorite Looping Mechanism | foreach |
| Least Favorite Looping Mechanism | for( $i=0; $i<@array; $i++) | if I wanted to write C I would use C |
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| Favorite Module | XML::Twig | I wonder why! Narrowly beats Bone::Easy |
| Least Favorite Module | XML::DOM | Nice module, but the DOM is an awful standard |
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| Favorite Special Variable | $/ | especially changing it while reading a file |
| Least Favorite Special Variable | $. | because it is not reset when reading several files through <> |
| Favorite variable type | blessed scalar | very cool to use as object |
| Favorite Command Line Switch | -p | -P is cool too |
| Least Favorite Command Line Switch | -s | so much abuse is possible through this one! |
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| Favorite Pragma | overload | despite the performance penalty |
| Favorite Regexp Modifier | exe | although I try to stick to ex |
| Favorite Regexp Metachar | \L | we don't need no stinkin' upper case! |
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| Favorite Descriptive Variable Name | toto | I am French! |
| Favorite HERE Doc delimitor | THIS | or THAT |
| Favorite Filehandle | IN | or... OUT |
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