In my eternal search for perfection and nirvana (well, actually I'm just frustrated with myself), I've been trying to figure out how to how to write my code so I never get those annoying "uninitialized value" warnings that appear far to frequently for me.

After searching around PM for a while today, it seems the most common way to do this is by using: 

if (defined $value) {
    .....
}

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however, there are moments where that is inconvienient (I'm not lazy, just efficient--OK, so I am lazy). What are other ways to ensure that I write my code right the first time, to avoid this error?

xiexie,

melguin

In reply to on to better coding (no uninitialized values) by melguin

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