My answers reveal a more boring mind I think.
| Favorite Perl Instruction |
sub |
I love closures |
| Least Favorite Instruction |
reset |
Have you read the description of reset? |
| Favorite Looping Mechanism |
foreach |
Why allow mistakes to be made? |
| Least Favorite Looping Mechanism |
map |
If you won't use the return, why be confusing and obfuscate? |
| Favorite Module |
Exporter |
Narrowly beat Carp |
| Least Favorite Module |
Number::Format |
The bugs in it taught me things I didn't want to know about Perl. |
| Favorite Special Variable |
$! |
Need I explain? |
| Least Favorite Special Variable |
$` and $' |
Did I want the performance hit? |
| Favorite variable type |
Anonymous hash |
Very flexible |
| Favorite Command Line Switch |
-c |
Catch any typos in my incomplete edit |
| Least Favorite Command Line Switch |
-u |
Is it worth the pain of getting this to work? |
| Favorite Pragma |
strict |
Catch my typos please |
| Favorite Regexp Modifier |
g |
Particularly in scalar context |
| Favorite Regexp Metachar |
\w |
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| Favorite Descriptive Variable Name |
$_ |
Only when it makes sense though |
| Favorite HERE Doc Delimiter |
EOT |
End Of Text |
| Favorite Filehandle |
my $fh = do {local *FH}; |
What do you mean you didn't know that worked? |
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