We're probably not going to come to an agreement on this.

Note that a lot of people are still using perl 5.005 (constant.pm was first part of 5.6.0), and it wasn't that long ago that Debian and other GNU/Linux distros started installing something a little more recent by default. IIRC, some FreeBSD system scripts won't run on a more recent perl (this may have changed). So there are still a signifcant number of people out there that aren't even on 5.6.

When I'm coding on my main job, I use newer features of the language without a care, because I know we run a more recent version of perl. However, this script was meant for public consumption, which means avoiding newer things if possible (admittedly, I should also have used -w instead of use warnings).

Additional clarity can be gained with a simple # Constants comment above the subroutines in question. I didn't do this in the above code, but it wouldn't hurt.

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: () { :|:& };:

Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Web Site Mapper by hardburn
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