I have been reading a book called "How to think like Einstein." I have yet to read through half of it, but I have gathered that he was a very notorious rulebreaker, and that contributed greatly to his early successes. Perl seems like the natural place for using that way of thinking, so I have come to ask: what are your ways of breaking the rules in learning/doing perl?

I think I stumbled upon already: looking through the back of the Llama book for inspiration, I stumbled upon the answers page to the questions. Then it occured to me: I can just look at the answers when I get to the questions, since it's in a self learning environment. Obviously, in an academic environment, it's too costly to risk, but this is different. That's my tip. What say you, fellow monks?

EDIT: cleared up some grammar EDIT: downvote me more

In reply to Breakin' the rules, Breakin' the rules by esk555

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