Hello Perl Monks

From the time I matured as a programmer I realised that the code should be written for tomorrow and time should not be spend on reinventing the wheel but to make it more efficient. My Sir under whom I learned and sharpened my programming skills used to maintain his own subroutine library. And so I also started maintaining my own set of subroutine library. As I was the only one who used these subroutines and so whatever I wrote was the Best. Currently I am maintaining my own subroutine file for Perl programming. This week as I was getting ready to put one of my subroutine on this site I saw some Perl programs which came along with the installation and I changed my mind. What I see here is that there is some standard followed while writing subroutines. So I request all the monks out there to share their knowledge about what are their styles and standards for writing subroutines, so that it helps Perl programmers like me.

Regards

Jamnet

Edited 2001-04-09 by mirod: moved from SOPW to Meditations.

In reply to Standards for Writing Subroutines by Jamnet

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