Sure, Perl's a language but I'm used to muttering in ksh, so I also forget the newlines on the ends of my print statements, hehehe. I thought my prog was broken a few times, turns out the one-word output was immediately followed my long prompt so I misssed it.
The Ultimate Noob, -=GLA=- P.S. -- I didn't know how to shell-script before January, and now I'm rewriting my largest ksh script into Perl, so I think I'm doing OK. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ultimate stupidity Just think of the semicolons as periods to a sentence. Think of your thoughts in totality. After all it is a language :-). Ron >From: "Gary L. Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: ultimate stupidity >Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:29:15 -0400 > >I forget the semicolons just about every coding session. My program never >works right the first test run because of this. I can't even blame it on >the >cursor. I'll fix it and move on, but the next day I forget them again. >Sometimes I forget the # before my comment marking the end of an if or >other >conditional block. Usually, though, it's the semicolon. > >-=GLA=-; > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:43 AM >To: Francesco Scaglioni >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: ultimate stupidity > > >On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Francesco Scaglioni wrote: > > > Answer: > > I had inadvertently put a space in front of the # at the beginning of > > the #!. The space is, of course covered by the cursor when I visit > > the beginning of the file an I had failed to notice the implied space > > ( implied because I could still see the # ). Is this a record for the > > most stupid mistake ever made? Boy have I got much to learn. > >Don't feel bad -- we've all done similar things. You know why programmers >have flat foreheads. Beacuse they are constantly slapping their forehead >and going 'Doh!' > >Being able to admit an error (even one you think is stupid) is a good >quality to have. > >-- Brett > http://www.chapelperilous.net/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Sir, it's very possible this asteroid is not stable. > -- C3P0 > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
