Hi tye, good points, but I have a question about this remark:
Don't use single-word, all-lower-case subroutine names. If you do, then you can reduce your risk by either calling them like &mysub(...) or by putting them into a module (and then import them, use the full name with package name in front, or use OO).

I can see there is a potential problem in that calling single word subroutines without parentheses can be confusing to the parser, but what's the difference in this regard between all-lower-case subroutines and (for example) CamelCase subroutines? Or are you warning against redefining future keywords/build-ins?

Joost.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re^2: Bad news for IO::Handle magic (SWYM or sink) by Joost
in thread Bad news for IO::Handle magic by Stevie-O

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