in reply to Re: unless vs. bare block
in thread unless vs. bare block
They are local variables and so avoid the generally evil programming practice of keeping state in global variables.Generally, avoid the evil practice of being too general. There are lots of cases where it doesn't matter at all, or where other trade offs can be made. Remember, people could have used lexical filehandle references since 5.000, but it wasn't until they autovivified that people actually started to use them on a larger scale. The world didn't burn up in flames in the mean time.
They close themselves automatically when their lexical variable goes out of scope.Yeah, and so will "bare word" handles. You can even limit their scope by using local.
They avoid the confusion of barewords. IMHO, barewords are an unfortunate Perl feature and should be avoidedWait. You're saying we should write &foo and "Module::Foo"->new instead of foo and Module::Foo::->new, because they're barewords, and unfortunate? You're sure you mean this?
As for why the three-argument form of open is preferred, the old two-argument form of open is subject to various security exploitsYou've no idea where the second argument is coming from. For all we know, there's no problem. Don't scare people.
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Re^3: unless vs. bare block
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on May 10, 2012 at 12:02 UTC | |
by JavaFan (Canon) on May 10, 2012 at 20:19 UTC | |
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on May 10, 2012 at 21:15 UTC |
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