in reply to The Marcel Perl Questionnaire
here's more answers:
| Favorite Perl Instruction | last | So much power, so few keystrokes |
| Least Favorite Perl Instruction | eval | Don't get me wrong, this is an extremely useful utility, but i always feel so guilty pulling it off the shelf |
| Favorite operator | ?: | So quick to type, |
| Least Favorite Operator | ?: | yet so much documentation to do also... |
| Favorite Looping Mechanism | quantified foreach | One line to loop them and all, and one line... |
| Least Favorite Looping Mechanism | do {} until() | just don't use it often |
| Favorite Module | File::Find | Useful sysadmin tool |
| Least Favorite Module | Getopt.pl | This is completely outclassed by the newer Getopt.pm modules. |
| Favorite Special Variable | @ARGV | parse, strip, <> |
| Least Favorite Special Variable | $| | always the last place i look for a bug... |
| Favorite Variable Type | Scalar | It's a number, no wait it's a string, no a reference, wait wait, i've got it... ;-) |
| Favorite Command Line Switch | -i | i'll save that file, thank you |
| Least Favorite Command Line Switch | -Mstrict | ummm, wait a second, you mean it's not already in the file? Someone get me a rope... |
| Favorite Pragma | use Diagnostics; | ding! OH! So that's what that means... |
| Favorite Regexp Modifier | prefixed m | LTS anyone? |
| Favorite Regexp Metachar | ? | if less is more... |
| Favorite Descriptive Variable Name | $i | You're already thinking of a loop, aren't you? |
| Favorite HERE Doc Delimiter | END | obligatory |
| Favorite Filehandle | ARGV | <> is my second favorite operator... |
nuf evah,
jynx
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