Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
Perl-Sensitive Sunglasses
 
PerlMonks  

comment on

( [id://3333]=superdoc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

my first programming encounter was with QBasic. Until I found out about perl, I had no programming skill or style at all, and while discovering the new ways to program, it was pretty interesting.

As soon as I knew about a function I tried to use it whenever possible, and a while ago it hit me; I had hacked quite an amount of form to email scripts for the company I work for, and while looking at one, I saw a terrible line of code:

my $address = $query->param('address') ? $query->param('address') : 'N +o address specified';

And that's only one param, imagine what the script looks like. It seems that I got too excited with the CONDITION ? VALUE_IF_TRUE : VALUE_IF_FALSE form that I started using it everywhere without looking at how simple it can be to use ||

Is anyone interested in sharing similar dumb mistakes? I'd like to know that I'm not the only one, maybe I'll feel better ;)


He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Dumb Mistakes by Chady

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
    <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
  • Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
  • Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.
Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others contemplating the Monastery: (10)
As of 2024-03-28 12:04 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found