[ABE.pm] Here's a weird one

[Faber J. Fedor]

On 22/02/07 19:44 -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> You probably mean: 
> 
>   my $table = $q->param('table');
>      $table = $something_else unless defined $table;

DUH!  Did I not make it clear that the double "my" was an error?  It was
NOT what I intended.

> By the way, I couldn't help but notice that this is an eyesore:
> 
>   $table = 'fm_'.$bm.'_'.$variable.'_'.$weighting.'_weighting'
> 
> Why not:
> 
>   $table = "fm\_$bm\_$variable\_$weighting\_weighting"
> 
> ? :)

Convention. 

> > I have been running this code for weeks with this bug.  The compiler
> > never saw it.  And I just found four more instances of the same bug! All
> > four can be seen above.
> > 
> > This code compiles and runs from the command line without errors or warnings.
> 
> You are getting no warnings because you have not turned on warnings.  You
> should ALWAYS start your code with "use strict; use warnings;"

The first use statement in all my perl code is "use strict".  It seems
this time I forgot the '-w' on the shebang line.


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