In Perl, the "parens make it a list" thing tops my (list). It's just barely true enough to be plausible.

To make this useful to readers of all levels, I think it should include not just the incorrect answers, but some comments as to why they are wrong.

Frequently Given Answers That Are Wrong

That these are exactly equivalent:

# assuming $o = Class->new;
Class::method( $o );
$o->method;
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You forgot the insidious syntax. This one is also not identical.

$o = new Class

saw it innumerable times.

Well, I think this statement is understandable. It does sound strange and feel awkward at first. But I believe it's something you can easily get used to. I've never used Python myself, but I used to program in Clean which uses (optionaly) the whitespace indentation rules as well and got used to it much sooner than expected. But it surely did sound crazy at first.

Jenda


XML sucks. Badly. SOAP on the other hand is the most powerfull vacuum pump ever invented.

Not necessarily bad, just annoying. There's something oh so wrong about escaping new lines. Not '\n', I'm talking about:

$var = "this\
is\
one line";
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