in reply to IYHO, what do you consider good code?
To me, apart from the various points people have made about using warnings and strictures, structured code, using subroutines and so forth, the most important rule is:
Use meaningful names!
This applies to variables, subroutines, loops, filehandles, everything.
Always take a little extra time, 10 seconds or so, to name your variables well.
Good names can often make comments redundant and unnecessary.
I hope I never ever have to maintain a program again that's full of variables named @tmp, $i, $n, $ldr, %hash or subroutines named process or run and all the other meaningless crap people foist off as names.
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Regards,
Helgi Briem
helgi DOT briem AT decode DOT is
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