On Fri, 31 May 2013 13:13:29 +0000, Weidner, Ron wrote: > my ( $proto, $common, $name, $options ) = @_; > my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
That is a common bit of cargo-culting that you might want to rethink. I know it's posted all over the place but it's generally considered a bad practice now. See http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/Perl-Critic-Bangs-1.08/lib/Perl/Critic/ Policy/Bangs/ProhibitRefProtoOrProto.pm and near the end of http:// www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col52.html. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/perl-programming.php http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780133036268 http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/28923 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/