in terms of variable names, every perl book or tutorial i've read has said that hashes take up more memory and are slower to access than scalers. If thats not the case, than great -- but i've been under the assumption that $FRUITS__apples is faster to access and takes less memory than $FRUITS{'oranges'}.
in terms of functions -- call me crazy, but i think that &get_the_path_for_apache_configuration() is a great function name. sure, i could have a class ApacheConfiguration, and setConfFilePath($path) getConfFilePath() -- but why not have a name like that and save myself an object creation?
I'm not being sarcastic - i tend to come off like that, so please don't misread me. I want to code legibly, and efficiently, and am open to many ideas.

In reply to Re^3: Does the size of a variable's name affect memory? by nmerriweather
in thread Does the size of a variable's name affect memory? by nmerriweather

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