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Question on acceptable practice.

Subject, warning on Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ...

When this happens, I go back and check my code to make sure it is OK the value is sometimes unitialized. If it OK, I move on and dont worry about it.

Is this a bad habit???

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Re: Amateur Perl Hacker
by hsmyers (Canon) on Jun 25, 2003 at 14:15 UTC
    Yes. Lots of Famous Really Good Programmers (tm) will tell you to always initialize vars---but since I'm not one of them, I'll tell you to at least try and make it a habit since it will save you grief later on. My rule is that if there is a chance that I'll check the value before I stuff something in it, I'll usually set it to a known value...

    --hsm

    "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."
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