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Re^2: updating multiple text files

by marinersk (Priest)
on Mar 10, 2015 at 21:25 UTC ( [id://1119572]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: updating multiple text files
in thread updating multiple text files

It was what was taught by firstPerlers, which makes it a defacto standard. (I note here that this does not prevent it from being sad; it merely shows a valid reason why it might be seen as a standard by some).

If memory serves, one used to have to turn off strictures in order to not use global handles, a workaround for which was given in one of my earliest PerlMonks SoPW posts. It was there that I learned stricture control was lexically scoped. : -)

In the end, some folks will move forward with new features of a language and others will not; it is driven by needs and values.

For example, I still use the &subName(); form for calling non-object-oriented subroutines. There are many who do not appreciate that calling sequence, as it is archaic v4 syntax; but it adds a clarity for these old eyes, and barring a coding standard to the contrary, will continue -- sad or not -- in this corner of the world.

:-)

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