Hi Shawn, On Sunday 27 Jun 2010 20:41:31 Shawn H Corey wrote: > On 10-06-27 01:08 PM, marcos rebelo wrote: > > Hi all > > > > This time, it's much more a personal opinion than a recipe. > > > > http://sites.google.com/site/oleberperlrecipes/recipes/01-variables/04--- > > misc/01-when-shall-we-use-default-variables > > > > Opinions are always welcome in [email protected] > > > > Best Regards > > Marcos Rebelo > > An opinion I have held all along: Things that behave differently should > look different. That means *always* put the array in the shift.
You seem to have an obsession with getting people to stop using "my $param = shift;" and use "my $param = shift(@_);" instead. This is depsite the fact that a lot of high-quality, production code on CPAN and elsewhere is using it extensively. We already had at least two full length discussions here about it and you're still going. Please see what chromatic and I wrote about it here: * http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/35842.html Namely, we said that there are many fine points of style that even experienced developers disagree upon, and the best way is to avoid opening this Pandora box in the first place. If someone doesn't do something exactly the way you are used to, but it's still idiomatic, then the best idea would be to let it go. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
