OT, but yet another style question for Abigail, since '=>' was like crazy again...

I've noticed you use => in place of commas .. a lot. <seinfeld>not that there is anything wrong with that</seinfeld>. I'm still one that uses => only for hash construction, when I need to imply a key-value pair, or maybe in a map, but anyway, when I need the implicit LHS quoting and a comma.

In one of your examples, you gave something like 

system mkdir => -p => $foo;

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while most would do something closer to: 

system("mkdir -p $foo");

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Care to explain why this is syllistically more interesting to you? My guess is no, but we're on a style thread and this just looks odd to me. I'm thinking you were nearly eaten by a pack of rabid commas when you were a child or something :) Ok, so I'm not going to use '=>' any more because of what you might say, I'm just curious ... sort of like a 'where did that accent come from' type of question.

(commence with the moose stoning)

In reply to Re: Re: Perl Style: About error messges opening files by flyingmoose
in thread Perl Style: About error messges opening files by demerphq

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