note armstd <p>Not in my opinion, but I rarely do it. My main considerations for doing so are maintainability and performance. If it's a trivial method called often, I'll definitely consider using $_[0] instead of assigning $self first, like your example. </p> <p>If it's a method that does considerable or complicated things to "$self", or isn't called very often, then I consider $self more maintainable and will prefer it. </p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-901898"> <p> --Dave </p> </div></div> 929698 929698