[Za-pm] [art001] comments

Nick Cleaton nick at cleaton.net
Mon Jun 9 03:36:08 CDT 2003


> http://za.pm.org/articles/001/index.html

That's a nice introduction, just a couple of comments about some
of the code:


> print "\'$_\' " foreach @ARGV;

You don't need to escape the singlequotes there, and I think
the extra backslashes make it more confusing than it needs to
be.

  print "'$_' " foreach @ARGV;


> for ( $t = 1; $t < 5; $t++ ) {

That's the C way of doing for loops, it can be written in Perl
as:

  for $t ( 1..4 ) {

... which might be less confusing for those without a C
background.

A couple of typos:

> # A hash is similar to a hash, whith the distinct difference that the

  # A hash is similar to an array, with the distinct difference that the

--
Nick



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