Re: Stupid mistakes I repeatedly make

[matthewb]

++ nice to know you're human.

I have a personal bug that typically irritates me about twice a week. It is that, even if it is a value in some hash, my brain interprets a method call as a something that should end with a semicolon. Thus, I frequently type something like:

my $hash = {

  key1 => 'scalar value',
  key2 => [ qw( its an array ) ],
  key3 => Some::Package->method(
    $args, $go, $here,
  ); # <-- oops!
};

This is somewhat insidious because it doesn't break emacs' syntax highlighting and perl -c /path/to/script reports the error as being on the next line. Ho hum, confession is good for the soul.

[brian_d_foy]

Ah, yes, I've done that one quite a bit too, and it's not just in a hash: I get it for list creation that goes into a normal array (or even into a list operator). I think this one is just finger memory: a semicolon just automatically comes after a closing paren.