I'd like to point out that the poster came here
with a specific question, and didn't come here
with "Heh, I don't know any Perl -- who is going to give me my first lesson".
The OP has already indicated in Re^2: unless vs. bare block that he was
very happy with my reply and even went to the trouble
to thank me for it.
Besides, I am not answering just for the OP,
but also for others who read the thread.
Unlike your replies in this thread, the tone of my reply was polite,
not bullying,
the intent was
to help the OP and others improve their knowledge
of Perl.
One of the things I enjoy about perlmonks is
that threads often meander a bit,
not just "answer the topic at hand and nothing more".
This has already been discussed at length in When do we change our replies?,
where my exact point of view was expressed by moritz:
I really like to see replies that not only answer the question,
but contribute to the education of all readers in terms of
idiomatic Perl and robust programming (always in the context
of the original question, of course).
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