in reply to poll ideas quest

In response to tye's response to my posting.
Thanks for jacques pointer to this node.
There, I was suggesting a more Perl-style polling. I thought I would benefit beginners like me, who like to learn more from the master's style.
So here is my suggestion (apologize if it sounds silly)

"My favorite place to put subroutines collection is:"
1.Before main
2.After main
3.use Module::
4.etc

"My favorite way to 'die' is: "
1. open (FOO,$foo|| die "Can't open $foo: $!)
2. unless (open OLD, "counter") {die "Cannot open counter";}
3. etc..(I was referring to merlyn's article)

Regards,
Edward

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Re^2: poll ideas quest
by tye (Sage) on Nov 10, 2004 at 01:23 UTC

    Thank you for the suggestions. The creative input can certainly be helpful.

    However, you haven't finished these polls. At least I presume that you don't really want the last choice to be "etc". So you'd like someone else to finish the poll choices?

    It can be fun to whip out a quick poll suggestion and it is pretty easy to come up with an interesting topic and a couple of interesting choices. But the hard part of coming up with a poll is figuring out exactly which choices to include. If one really wants to help out with getting better polls created, then doing the hard part of the work is going be more appreciated than doing the (sometimes) easy part (sometimes coming up with a topic is difficult in a different way).

    So I thank you again for the suggestions and I'll look at them again when I think it has come time for a new poll and I may use one of them as a starting point.

    And I also thank you for giving me an example to let me clarify what I mean by "do the work".

    There will always be options that some will think should have been included even though the poll author didn't think so (sometimes as an oversight, sometimes as a difference of opinion). When I've been involved in or seen polls being composed for PerlMonks, quite a lot of effort goes into looking for choices that should be included.

    - tye        

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      YAPoll suggestion?

      What religion is most similar to Perl? (in no particular order)

      • Christianity
      • Hinduism
      • Judaism
      • Islam
      • Buddhism
      • Zen Buddhism
      • Catholicism
      • Discordia
      • Paganism
      • Daoism
      • CowboyNeal
      • Atheism
      • Wicca
      • Magic
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        Perhaps Christianity should be retitled as protestant(ism?), since, as Moriarty more or less mentioned, catholocism is simply a subcategory of Christianity. Probably removal of Magic, since it's more a part of certain religions, than a religion itself. One could perhaps replace it with Ceremonial Magic, or ceremonialism, which would cover lots of stuff like Thelema and the Order of the Golden Dawn and other such things. One could then, in theory, proceed to remove Wicca, since the two primary flavors of Wicca tend to fall under either Paganism (even though it's a rather generalistic term, it works) or Ceremonialism, (the original Wicca was founded by a member of the golden dawn as I recall, or at least heavily based on it)

        Yah... I probably thought abou this just a bit to much... eh well...

        Just Another Perl Alchemist
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        I noticed you separated Catholicism from Christianity. Are trying to say that Catholics aren't Christian? :)

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Re^2: poll ideas quest
by theorbtwo (Prior) on Nov 10, 2004 at 00:30 UTC

    Neither suggestion seems well-thought-out. For example, 1 under the second doesn't do what you think it does -- if $foo is not true, then it dies -- it ignores if the open fails or not. As to the first one, what is main?

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