Re^2: Format Style Opinions: my, ternary, subroutine

friedo wrote:
> ...consider thinking about why you have a sub where the first parameter is optional...

Because it is a wrapper for a command. Suppose the command was ls. It would be convenient to call the sub, thus:

ls('-lrt', '/home');
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Does this convenience not outweigh breaking from the convention that optional args go last?

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Re^3: Format Style Opinions: my, ternary, subroutine by webfiend (Vicar) on Dec 04, 2007 at 19:11 UTC
My first thought is "If it's good enough for `system`, it's good enough for me" `$ perl -e 'system("ls", "/home/brian");' # ... my stuff $ perl -e 'system("ls", "-lrt", "/home/brian");' # ... my stuff` [download]	[reply] [d/l]