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The Perl Dr saw a function named Update::update and thought this was fine??

You need that second opinion!

There are a million kinds of updates out there. If I run across a function named update, I have no idea what it does, and I'll curse the person who wrote it with no mercy for the maintainance programmer looking for context.

Please name it something that gives a hint what it does. Something like "update_download" or "make_download_current".

While you're at it, I would leave out the superfluous "return 1". (Are you using that return anywhere?)

In reply to Re: To script or not to script, that is the question... by tilly
in thread To script or not to script, that is the question... by tlm

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