Re: On bad habits

[trammell]

These days I find myself using the "-l" perl option a lot, and I rarely need to put explicit "\n"'s in my code (maybe for printf). A nice bit of laziness/DWIMery. Perhaps that would help you break your habit.

Update: Thanks, !1, I didn't know that, but it makes abundant sense. I suppose I've never run into it before because I don't use a lot of modules that have their own file IO.

[!1]

Use it only if you aren't using modules which are expected to manipulate files. I learned this the hard way when I wrote a throwaway script that used Archive::Zip and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't create a valid zip.

[DrHyde]

How does use of -l affect modules which aren't expecting it? The docs indicate that they will double-space anything they print.