FWIW this time I agree with zigster.

Perl is a language that allows you to play fast and loose. However it does not free you from the laws of human comprehension. It does not change anything about what is and is not good programming technique. And the sooner you learn that, the sooner you will truly master Perl programming. Allow me to summarize the key points:

  1. If you wish to solve small problems, then scripting is acceptable and can be done much faster than real programming.
  2. If your problems grow into the realm of real programming tasks, scripting as a style is inherently a bad idea.
  3. Perl has not proven or disproven any general principle about good programming technique. It merely sits at an unusual combination of design choices that intentionally does not try to force you to program well.
  4. As I have said many times, I do not like working with programmers who have not absorbed these principles.
Please read what you wrote and what zigster replied with carefully. Then read Re (tilly) 6: Ways of commenting subroutines. Then read all three parts of Avoid symbolic references.

Hopefully between those I have convinced you that good Perl programming is first and foremost good programming, and only secondly does it have anything to do with Perl as Perl.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Oh Brother. by tilly
in thread My Laptop talks to me. by frankus

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