The only reason I used bold is because when I finished writing my post, the preview looked horrible. I couldn't distinguish the code from the text, so I decided to use something to help differentiate between the code and my writing. I have no idea how it looks on your end, but on my monitor, the bold letters looked okay. And I didn't mean to shout. I just wanted to make my post easy to read.

Secondly, I purposely write what I wrote, so someone would correct me. Guess what. This page content just became more valuable because of my stupid post. Why? Because people got irritated and corrected me. I have a theory. My theory is that asking questions is not as effective as posting stupid stuff. When you post something incorrect, it irritates people who are knowledgeable, and they respond to you faster and with more specific and pointed answers than if you were just going to insert an off-topic question into a thread. You might even get rebuked for posting off-topic stuff in the thread. (Asking about prototypes in this thread would be an off-topic question.) But this way, you just pull more knowledge out of people, because they correct you. They can't stand the incorrect stuff sticking out like a sore thumb, so they write down every reason they can think of why you're wrong. It's a strategy. And I think, it works great. ;-)

Btw I also visited this page using another device where I am not logged in, and I did not see my own post.... which leads me to believe that PerlMonks hides stuff that is down voted, which is a mistake, I believe, because again, I believe that I am adding value to this website by my posts, not taking away. There is a significant difference between posting partially wrong information in hope that others will correct me AND posting, let's say, political advertisements or completely off-topic stuff that no one cares about.

In reply to Re^3: Trouble usig a subroutine from a custom module by harangzsolt33
in thread Trouble usig a subroutine from a custom module by fritz1968

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