in reply to (OT) What Was Your Most Bone-headed Programming Error?

How timely. Here's today's little gem:

sub _archive { my ($self, $store_file) = shift; # rest of code... }
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Re: Re: (OT) What Was Your Most Bone-headed Programming Error?
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 21, 2003 at 07:43 UTC

    Not to forget its one true friend:

    sub blah { my $arg = @_;

    cheers

    tachyon

    s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

Re: Re: (OT) What Was Your Most Bone-headed Programming Error?
by TVSET (Chaplain) on Oct 21, 2003 at 02:54 UTC
    I'll second this. :) I do it all the time too. The next most frequent one for me is forgetting to put "?" into regexp and then wondering why nothing was left of the input. ;)