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Re: My habitual errorsby liverpole (Monsignor) |
on Apr 15, 2007 at 15:13 UTC ( [id://610200]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Hi moron,
That's a very entertaining question! The reason it took me a while to answer is was that I couldn't remember the overriding mistake that I make, out of the many that I make all the time. I knew there was something, but I just couldn't put my finger on it. Then I remembered ... the hands-down winner for me is putting semi-colons after values in a declared hash, instead of commas. That is, I like to write long data structures in this format:
But invariably I end up putting semi-colons at the end of one or more lines -- for example:
It also seems to happen with a frequency in direct proportion to the complexity of the data structure. I'm pretty sure this has bitten me more than any other single class of error. s''(q.S:$/9=(T1';s;(..)(..);$..=substr+crypt($1,$2),2,3;eg;print$..$/
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