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There are rumours that perl has initially really just been an experiment to prove that a program can be written only by using the preprocessor. It eventually failed and that's the reason why you'll occasionally find a few lines of C code sprinkled in between the preprocessor directives.
Tassilo v. Parseval
<c6em52$avdtc$1@ID-231055.news.uni-berlin.de>
sub configuration {
my %options = @_;
print "Maximum verbosity.\n" if $options{VERBOSE} == 9;
}
if ($something_went_awry) {
return if defined wantarray; # good, not void context.
die "Pay attention to my error, you danglesocket!!!\n";
}
Programming Perl 3rd ed.
Wall, Christiansen & Orwant
Tell you what. Let's just issue a mandatory warning at the startup of every Perl script that says: "Don't be stupid."
Larry Wall
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