On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 20:25, Steve Bertrand<st...@ibctech.ca> wrote: snip > - is "Perl Best Practises" what most of you use as general guidelines? > IOW, if I continue reading it, will you be able to better understand my > code (even though I stick with a few _small_ personal techniques)? From > what I've read so far, I'm better understanding many of Uri's past > comments a lot better snip
PBP is a collection of the folk wisdom at the time of writing. Most things in it are good. Some have not stood the test of time (inside out objects). snip > - after many years, I've finally made the switch from a simple editor > (ee) to Vim. A *huge* difference. In three days, I can't believe what I > can do already. snip I love Vim, but you should also look at Emacs. You should also throw it away in disgust, but you should at least look at it to know that you are not one-of-those-people. snip > In all of my files, I've changed from \t to four-space > tabs. Beyond that, I've run many of my module files into Perl::Critic. snip Spacing, like editors, is a religious issue. I am an eight character hard tab programmer for the same reasons Uri mentions. Another benefit of eight character tabs combined with an eighty character line limit is that your indent level servers as a warning that your code is getting too deeply nested. snip > Is Perl::Critic recommended, and whether it is or isn't, are there any > other Best Practises you can recommend, so I can review/change my > existing code prior to moving forward again? snip Perl::Critic is good. Many of its rules come straight from PBP; however, like PBP, it is important to remember that parts of it are just advice. snip > - what other Perl lists/sites can you recommend to me? fwiw, I prefer > mail lists or newsgroups, as I don't have to bother browsing all over > the web. snip [P5P][1] has some interesting things on it. I like [Stack Overflow][2]. Other good things are [comp.lang.perl.misc][3] and [Perl Monks][4]. There are numerous other specialty [mailing lists][5]. Another interesting source of information is the [Perl Iron Man Challenge][6] (a [blogging challenge][7] put forth by [mst][8]). [1] : http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl5_porters [2] : http://stackoverflow.com [3] : http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/topics [4] : http://perlmonks.org [5] : http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?mailing_lists [6] : http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ [7] : http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/iron-man/ [8] : http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/ -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
