I beg to disagree: @ARGV and <> are deeply rooted mechanisms in the brain of every Perl programmer.

Except for those Perl programmers who aren't sysadmin-ish in their tasks. You have to remember - there isn't just one prototypical Perl programmer; there are several. You have:

Only one of those uses @ARGV and <>. I happen to fit two of those molds, am anal about reading documentation, and have been writing Perl since 5.005_03, and I don't understand @ARGV and <>. I had to read perldoc to understand what you were doing.

Be explicit in what you're doing - maintainable code is the best code and you're not always your own maintainer. Pay it forward.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re: How 'bout and argv pragma? by dragonchild
in thread How 'bout an argv pragma? by blazar

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