in reply to The Marcel Perl Questionnaire
Hey, this is fun! Here's my take on things:
| Favorite Perl Instruction | map | I have to agree here. Brings back memories of using Scheme in college. |
| Least Favorite Instruction | format | I just never have reason to use it |
| Favorite Looping Mechanism | postfix for | A bare block with redo is a close runner up |
| Least Favorite Looping Mechanism | do {...} while (...) | It's bass ackwards |
| Favorite Module | Data::Dumper | Inspect those hairy data structures |
| Least Favorite Module | Anything that starts with XML:: | I suppose I'll have to give in someday soon, though. |
| Favorite Special Variable | $_ | It's where all the magic happens! |
| Least Favorite Special Variable | $] | Fun for obfuscating, but "Its use is highly discouraged" |
| Favorite variable type | hash | Like having a struct in C, but you can add elements on the fly! |
| Favorite Command Line Switch | -w | Second runner up: "-MCPAN -e shell" |
| Least Favorite Command Line Switch | -U | It's Unsafe! |
| Favorite Pragma | strict | Of course! 8^) |
| Favorite Regexp Modifier | i | I'm sooo insensitive. ;^) |
| Favorite Regexp Metachar | \Q | Quote me, baby! |
| Favorite Descriptive Variable Name | $self | Fresh-baked objects... yum! |
| Favorite HERE Doc delimitor | EOT | "End Of Text" |
| Favorite Filehandle | STDERR | always there when you need a friend.... |
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