in reply to Re^2: RFC: Self Assessment Perl
in thread RFC: Self Assessment Perl

Maybe you could add "what are the TWO differences between use and require?" to your list of questions then.

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Re^4: RFC: Self Assessment Perl
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 06, 2018 at 15:21 UTC
    To be clear, I think it's important to understand what the concept of compile-time is.

    The question for BEGIN is just one possibility to activate a thought process...

    • sub declaration has compile- and run-time effects
    • my declaration has compile- and run-time effects

    The situation was that many people with different skills wanted to join a workshop, where most can't communicate what they need to know.

    I actually had to kick out one person who came unprepared and without former notice, and wanted to drag the whole workshop into his Delphi/Pascal world.

    As soon as my colleagues know at least the names of the "concepts" they will have the vocabulary to communicate without me being there.

    To give you a wider perspective, I'm just reading an important DSL book from a Java guy who constantly keeps using the word "closure" as synonym for "anonymous function" or "lambda". That's total BS, but quite common in other languages...

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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