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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:36:38PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > People will encounter 2-arg open in the wild in other people's code. > For a tutorial, it's important to teach what else people might see > (and why not to blindly start using that same style). We train a large fraction of our new employees to use perl. We don't use any of the perl beginner documentation for the initial training because it teaches them things that we don't have and don't want in our code. In this particular example, I think the ideal would be to start with lots of 3-arg opens and variables as filehandles, and then mention that 2-arg open and FH exists. That is, the reverse of the current. Even if I was training people to work on legacy code, I would begin by teaching them modern perl. I know that any language with a TMTOWTDI philosophy and a long history is going to have conflict over what's appropriate for beginner teaching materials. I'm glad that there are books we can buy that we think are good. -- greg (perl user since, uh, '88, '89?)Thread Previous | Thread Next