Personally, when I'm writing for others (particularly beginners, like here in the tutorial), I prefer to use the print statement as the author did, or a heredoc. It's explicit and obvious, and the reader can see precisely what is to be generated. I have been known, instead, to use the functions, but then I always feel compelled to add a comment explicitly describing the code to be generated. The same principle applies in any language, actually: it really makes it easier for newbies to read. Or maybe I just need my medication adjusted ;) By the way, the tutorial is great. I think this is a tremendous service to the community that you're performing. > -----Original Message----- > From: fliptop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:27 PM > To: Ken Scott > Cc: Perl Beginners CGI > Subject: Re: beginner's addressbook tutorial - step 3 - creating > perlclasses and our first cgi > > > Ken Scott wrote: > > > > on 6/10/01 10:19pm, fliptop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > step 3 is complete, and is available at: > > > > > > http://www.peacecomputers.com/addressbook_toot-step3.html > > > > > > coming next - step 3 - the perl handler, and a table of > contents for the > > > tutorial > > > > > > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > > > > My question is this: Since you already have the CGI module > included and > > used, why not call the CGI module's header() function? I > thought that it did > > the same thing, and might be a little clearer in intent. > > i could, since both statements do the same thing. now that i think > about it, i really don't know why i still do it manually. force of > habit, i guess. that's the beauty of perl, 'tmtowtdi'! > > > Also, would it be possible to create a link at the end of > each step of the > > tutorial to go to the next step? > > yes, i'm working on that. maybe i'll implement that before working on > the next step. > > > So far, this is an excellent tutorial. Thanks for taking > the time to do it. > > thanks for the encouragement. my wife is pissed, though, because i > haven't been making it to bed until like 1 or 2 am since i took on the > task. i'll share your sentiment with her (although i'm sure > it'll be of > little comfort!). >
