If I am the devil for offering a constructive critique to someone else, how are you entitled to call my examples "scatter code" or worthless? Think about it. And is scatter code worse than code without any merit whatsoever? Note that if you felt my response was incomplete, you were invited from the start to do as I did and expand upon it or correct me. I have no problem being told I am wrong.

Maybe I am the one who needs to get a life (and I probably do), although "you need a life" in my experience tends to equate to "I have nothing of substance to criticize you with". It wasn't me who felt compelled enough to go researching someone else's post history. And when I say "novice", I could care less about the author's user level on this site, and certainly don't go checking it. Someone asking a question about sorting and not knowing about references fairly likely has little experience with Perl. That doesn't mean, as you will probably say, that I think he's an idiot or that I am better than him somehow - it just means he doesn't have experience, period. I have been where he was, and he will be where I am. I consider myself barely a seasoned Perl programmer - solid with the basic stuff, but very far from being a wizard.

maybe where you live they like adults acting children, and viceversa

Careful - statements like these can backfire spectacularly.

I didn't test with warnings but no strict - point taken.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: thanks, for the smile you gave me by Aristotle
in thread [untitled node, ID 178427] by Samn

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