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Re: RFC: Perl manual pages -- update to follow the perlstyle.podguidelines

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Abigail
Date:
April 10, 2010 09:47
Subject:
Re: RFC: Perl manual pages -- update to follow the perlstyle.podguidelines
Message ID:
20100410164706.GN17977@almanda
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 09:00:41AM -0700, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:12:21AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> 
> > NOT OK:
> > 
> >   3. &&,|| => and, or
> > 
> >      read the thread to note the pitfalls
> 
> So, have we achieved consensus on a limited subset of || => 'or'?
> 
>    || die   =>   or die
> 


If there's any consensus, then it is that there are arguments for both
styles. IMO, both of them should be present in the documentation.

That's good for "newbies" too - in their productive life, they're likely
to encounter both styles; and they shouldn't get the impression the should
spend time changing one style in favour of the other.



Abigail
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