I have a style note. I'd like to see a consistent placement of the opening curly bracket for an anonymous block as an argument to a function when the block is going to span multiple lines. You place the bracket for map on the next line, but on the same line for sort. Either would make sense despite personal tastes, but they should probably be the same.

Not something wrong with your code, but perhaps worth mentioning is the magic <>. It is Perlish enough in a short code sample like this, but I did mark the OP down for not checking the return on open. Since Perl automatically emits an error message when it can't open a specified file using this idiom, the only trade-off for the extra power is not being able to emit your own custom error message. That's usually not worth much compared to processing all of your command-line arguments in order, but in the case of internationalization it might pose an issue.

In reply to Re^2: winter games, perl, ice and bling by mr_mischief
in thread winter games, perl, ice and bling by mobiusinversion

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