Re: [MacPerl] Novice question regards subroutines

[Michael Houghton <herveus@radix.net>]

Chris Nandor observed:
>At 02.17 -0400 1998.09.20, Bruce Van Allen wrote:
>>OK, so any value that can be resolved to a number will be, quoted or bare.
>>My main point for PwrSurge was to watch out for wrong use of operators.
>
>Yessir.  And I bet that using = instead of eq or == is the #1 mistake new
>Perl programmers make, so an important point it is.
>
Some of us not-so-new Perl programmers make this oopsie from time to time
as well...which is why I always make the first two lines of a new Perl script:

#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;

I then assume that any error message is something I need to fix until I
determine otherwise.

yours,
Michael

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