From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> >
> > From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > "Elizabeth A. Rice" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > What I've written so far....
> > > >
> > > > @ARGV = ("$logfile"); # prime the diamond
> > > > operator
> > > ^^ ^^
> > > Useless use of quotation marks and parenthesis.
> > >
> > > @ARGV = $logfile;
> >
> > I agree completely on the "useless use of quotes", but IMHO it's
> > more readable&understandeable with the parens.
> >
> > They do not change the meaning, but somehow I feel better
> > assigning a list instead of a scalar to an array:
> >
> > @ARGV = ( $logfile );
>
> Putting parenthesis around a scalar does not transform it to a list,
> the parenthesis are used for precedence which is redundent in this
> context.
Visualy they do.
I agree they are redundant, it's just that the code looks nicer (to
me) with than without them.
Jenda
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