Re: My coding guidelines

10. Interactive programs MUST print a usage message when called with wrong, incorrect or incomplete options or arguments.

I find the Pod::Usage module to be excellent for this purpose and always combine it with Getopt::Long.

Number 24 seems weird to me also.

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Re: My coding guidelines by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 26, 2002 at 10:15 UTC
I wonder what is so strange about rule 24. The perlstyle manual page says: space around most operators. Which is what rule 24 is saying, but it's listing the exceptions. The reason I put space between `++` and `--` and its operands is that those operators are "large" (two characters). As for `->`, it's a binary operator. I put whitespace around other binary operators, so why not `->`? If you don't, you can get long blobs of text, without a resting place for the eyes. Perl should look like English, not German. `;-)`. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: My coding guidelines by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2002 at 17:15 UTC
But English is only my third language - while German is my second! `:-)` (Well, maybe you'd prefer me to code in Greek. `:^)` ) Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: My coding guidelines by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 27, 2002 at 18:09 UTC
English isn't my first language either. But it's Larry's first language.... Abigail	[reply]

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