Re: Question about this simple CGI

As this is a term project, you should be very careful in what you write.

So ask yourself (before the professor asks you):

Why do I use the -w flag in the hashbang line AND use warnings;
Why do I add parentheses in use DBI();

CountZero

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Re^2: Question about this simple CGI by petdance (Parson) on Sep 24, 2013 at 15:38 UTC
I use parens in `use` calls to explicitly show that nothing is getting imported from the module. xoxo, Andy	[reply]
Re^2: Question about this simple CGI by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 24, 2013 at 16:31 UTC
It means your professor is either overly tricky or should think his/her questions through a bit more. In the case of DBI the parens do nothing except take up space and maybe mislead someone. `~>ack \@EXPORT DBI.pm @EXPORT = (); # we export nothing by default @EXPORT_OK = qw(%DBI %DBI_methods hash); # also populated by export_ok +_tags:` [download] Update: DERP, didn't see the whole thread. CountZero is asking a good question. The answer to which is... left as an exercise for ~~the reader~~ you.	[reply] [d/l]