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You wrote:
Since I never use 'not' in my code ... yes. ;)

If not, why not? What do you use instead?
I find not is usually the cleanest and most readable operator for all sorts of tests.


die "$usage" if not @ARGV;

if (not -r $file) { die "Cannot read $file\n"; }

print "$pattern not found in $file\n" if not $found;
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And so forth.

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Helgi Briem
helgi AT decode DOT is

In reply to Re: Re: Re: My coding guidelines by helgi
in thread My coding guidelines by Abigail-II

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