This is being a little picky, but I noted you used:

sub find_pairing($white_player){ ... }

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in the code snippet. This prototype will work, but isn't strictly correct. It would be better to say:

sub find_pairing($) { ... }

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I also noted that some of the replies used:

sub find_pairing() {
    my $white_player = shift;
    ...
}

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This is bad. If you call this method after this declaration, then a call like find_pairing("Bob") will fail because the prototype will accept no arguments. It would be better to say nothing about the signature of the subroutine like:

sub find_pairing { ... }

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Anyway, you're all probably aware of this, but I wanted to make sure the casual browser, who might not, knows the difference between these slight variations. I look forward to Perl 6, where this cruft will be cleaned up.

In reply to Re: Question regarding variable scope by hanenkamp
in thread Question regarding variable scope by jpfarmer

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