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OK, so I needed a break last night and I have been watching the Actor's Studio and its final questionnaire a tad too much lately, so I came up with yet an other stoopid idea...

The Marcel Perl Questionnaire is a Perl version of the famous (?) Proust Questionnaire (which was not created by Proust by the way, he just answered it cleverly). The aim is to come up with a series of questions that reveal something on the questionnee's.

So here it is, with my answers:

Favorite Perl Instruction	map	even in void context {grin}
Least Favorite Instruction	pack/unpack	Perl Geek Code PU!

Favorite Looping Mechanism	foreach
Least Favorite Looping Mechanism	for( $i=0; $i<@array; $i++)	if I wanted to write C I would use C

Favorite Module	XML::Twig	I wonder why! Narrowly beats Bone::Easy
Least Favorite Module	XML::DOM	Nice module, but the DOM is an awful standard

Favorite Special Variable	$/	especially changing it while reading a file
Least Favorite Special Variable	$.	because it is not reset when reading several files through <>
Favorite variable type	blessed scalar	very cool to use as object
Favorite Command Line Switch	-p	-P is cool too
Least Favorite Command Line Switch	-s	so much abuse is possible through this one!

Favorite Pragma	overload	despite the performance penalty
Favorite Regexp Modifier	exe	although I try to stick to `ex`
Favorite Regexp Metachar	\L	we don't need no stinkin' upper case!

Favorite Descriptive Variable Name	toto	I am French!
Favorite HERE Doc delimitor	THIS	or THAT
Favorite Filehandle	IN	or... OUT

In reply to The Marcel Perl Questionnaire by mirod

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