Re^2: This is Strange!!! Please help me..

There are cases where, although the node title doesn't say anything useful, you still can't complain because the OP also couldn't have invented a better title. This is one of those cases.

Examine. The body of the post is good: it contains a code example reduced to minimal and explains what the OP expects it to do and how it fails. The minimal code example doesn't use any advanced features: it doesn't include modules (except for strict) or anything. Until you know the answer, there's no better way to describe the question than "I wrote something very simple in perl and it doesn't work".

Thanks to tye for explaining this phenomenon to me.

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Re^3: This is Strange!!! Please help me.. by kennethk (Abbot) on Sep 29, 2010 at 13:56 UTC
I should have, with my chiding, included positive reinforcement for the well-formatted and well-considered body of the post. I certainly agree with that point and will try to remember in the future. My issue is not with the null-statement title, but with the tone. Whenever I see an exclamation point in a title, let alone three, I interpret it the Perl sense - `! (Please help me)`. Had the title been "This is Strange - Please help me..", I would not have included the gripe (or better yet, simply "This is Strange"). I should have made this point more clearly - if an old-hand such as yourself misinterpreted my intent, then a new member would undoubtedly have done the same.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: This is Strange!!! Please help me..
by kennethk (Abbot) on Sep 29, 2010 at 13:56 UTC

My issue is not with the null-statement title, but with the tone. Whenever I see an exclamation point in a title, let alone three, I interpret it the Perl sense - ! (Please help me). Had the title been "This is Strange - Please help me..", I would not have included the gripe (or better yet, simply "This is Strange"). I should have made this point more clearly - if an old-hand such as yourself misinterpreted my intent, then a new member would undoubtedly have done the same.

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