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Re: On bad habitsby cosimo (Hermit) |
on Jun 21, 2005 at 11:36 UTC ( [id://468634]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
> Excessive use of double quote interpolation - I'm really > doing myself no favours with print "$variable"; but I use > print "$variable\n"; very heavily so the " gets to be a > reflex, even where I'm not using \n. I must admit I also have this "weakness", although I happen to prefer:
> Excessive use of foreach, where join or map would be preferable You can eliminate this bad habit just by using for instead of foreach :-)
> Excessive use of eval. I've just about cured myself of I don't think eval is slow. Eval'ing a string is slow, because IIRC it spawns a "new" interpreter, but eval'ing a block is ok.
> Using / as a regex separator, when the regex would be Yes, I'm also with you on this one, though at times I use the pipe char (|) instead of /.
> Using quoted strings where print <<END_BLOCK I'm with you here. Sometimes I don't "feel" using here docs, even if <<' END_OF_TEXT' allows for clean indented blocks. Just my € 0.02
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