in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: "use strict;" woes
in thread "use strict;" woes

This is from perlstyle:
While short identifiers like $gotit are probably ok, use underscores to separate words. It is generally easier to read $var_names_like_this than $VarNamesLikeThis, especially for non-native speakers of English. It's also a simple rule that works consistently with VAR_NAMES_LIKE_THIS.
hardburn's advice is solid, helpful, and appreciated. Your advice is ... what is the point of your advice? That even though hardburn's advice was good, it is opinionated? So what? It's ALL opinion! At least i know who hardburn is. Who are you? Generally speaking, of course.

jeffa

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Re: 5Re: "use strict;" woes
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 14, 2003 at 19:14 UTC
    And from just below your quote in perlstyle: 
      o   You may find it helpful to use letter case to indicate
      the scope or nature of a variable. For example:

          $ALL_CAPS_HERE   constants only (beware clashes with perl va
+rs!)
          $Some_Caps_Here  package-wide global/static
          $no_caps_here    function scope my() or local() variables

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    My point is simply that what hardburn said was the general way is not the general way.
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      Seeing how perlstyle comes with every perl distribution, i'd agree with hardburns presumption regardless of facts to the contrary.

      update: whoops, oh well

      MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
      ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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        I *was* quoting perlstyle which explicitly says in the quote I gave that globals be of the form $Some_Caps_Here, whereas hardburn stated globals should be all caps, which perlstyle reserves for constants. Perhaps the OP means his globals to be constants, but the OP and hardburn only refered to globals. sheesh, a little pedanticism goes a long way :)
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