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On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:33:25PM -0000, Peter Scott wrote: > Some advice for Perl trainers doing hands-on demonstrations: > Don't type "my $self = shift" (or shift anything else) without > practice. It is too easy to typo and leave the 'f' out of > 'shift'. For some reason I am more prone to making this > mistake in front of an audience than when coding alone. > Peter Scott Been there; done that! I also recommend avoiding attempts to type the potentially much more embarrassing "$count" for the same general reason (did it once; won't ever take the chance again!). - Tim *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Tim Maher, PhD (206) 781-UNIX (866) DOC-PERL (866) DOC-UNIX | | tim(AT)Consultix-Inc.Com http://TeachMePerl.Com http://TeachMeUnix.Com | *+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-* | Watch for my upcoming book: "Minimal Perl for UNIX/Linux People" | | 2/14: Minimal Perl 2/15: Hashes & Arrays 2/16-18: Intermediate Perl | *--------------------------------------------------------------------------*Thread Previous | Thread Next