Does anyone else hate the way method names with leading underscores look?
Personally I don't, but then again it's just a matter of personal preference. Just the other day I wrote some code that used a dispatch table and since the involved subs were not really trivial nor "minimal" I wrote them separately as named subs and put in the table references to them. Even if they were not methods of a class, since they were coneceptually somewhat "private" to the table, I used names with leading underscores for them. I find it quite natural...

UPDATE: In an even different situation in which I want a "private portion of a namespace" since I'm only using it as an "anonymous tool" I still use those leading underscores, e.g.: 

sub is {
    return bless \shift, '_hidden';
}

sub _hidden::in {
    my $s=${shift,};
    $s eq $_ and return 1 for @_;
    0;
}

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In reply to Re: I hate the leading underscores. by blazar
in thread I hate the leading underscores. by Anonymous Monk

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