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Embracing functions with parenthesesby crenz (Priest) |
on Mar 16, 2005 at 09:30 UTC ( [id://439886]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
When writing/formatting code, amongst other things I strive to reach two goals:
An example for not being consistent in choosing your method names would be
As another example, I'm not a fan of too many parentheses. I usually write one of
rather than
Especially for Perl built-in functions, a variety of styles exist as many can be called both with and without parentheses. I find myself often leaving away the parentheses, just to have to bring them back in to solve some precedence problem. And then I am left with a weird mixture of functions that use them and functions that don't. An example of things that just happen because of not strong enough habits:
Which brings me to my question (sorry it took so long): What do you guys do to have a consistent style for both Perl built-in functions and your own subroutines?
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