in reply to The Marcel Perl Questionnaire
YAQ (yet another questionee):
| Favorite Perl Instruction | #!/usr/bin/perl -w | Oh, Perl instruction ... not perl instruction (nevermind). |
| Least Favorite Instruction | do the dishes | Oh, you probably meant Perl instruction again. |
| Favorite Looping Mechanism | for(;<>;){} | Yeah, well *everybody* does while(<>){}. |
| Least Favorite Looping Mechanism | goto | But sometimes it is fun to mess with people's heads. |
| Favorite Module | Schroedinger::Cat | Doesn't exist yet, but I'm dying to look in the damn box. |
| Least Favorite Module | English.pm | Does anyone actually use this? |
| Favorite Special Variable | $_ | Often used, seldom seen. |
| Least Favorite Special Variable | $[ | What, you don't like saying 'The zeroeth element'? |
| Favorite variable type | hash | Who doesn't like hashes? |
| Favorite Command Line Switch | -e | From the cl of course, -w in a script |
| Least Favorite Command Line Switch | -X | ook! |
| Favorite Pragma | strict | What else? |
| Favorite Regexp Modifier | /gimeesex | Replacement often resolves to 'do the dishes' though ... |
| Favorite Regexp Metachar | (?!pattern) | Well, I count it as one metachar. |
| Favorite Descriptive Variable Name | $blah | Blah! |
| Favorite HERE Doc delimitor | EOF | But also HTML or SQL when appropriate. |
| Favorite Filehandle | DATA | The DATA handle is quite handy at times. |
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