develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from October 2017

[perl #132013] 'no formats'

From:
Tony Cook via RT
Date:
October 24, 2017 05:10
Subject:
[perl #132013] 'no formats'
Message ID:
rt-4.0.24-21021-1508821846-1879.132013-15-0@perl.org
On Mon, 04 Sep 2017 02:01:24 -0700, ed wrote:
> The particular issue is the punctuation variables associated with
> formats.  There are six and some of these two-character sequences can
> often appear as typos.  The common typing mistakes vary by programmer;
> I often type $->[0] instead of $_->[0] but I can imagine others making
> mistakes with $% when first learning about how to use hash references.

Something like the attached?

Tony

---
via perlbug:  queue: perl5 status: open
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132013



nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About