Hi
moron,
That's a very entertaining question! The reason it took me a while to answer is was that I couldn't remember the overriding mistake that I make, out of the many that I make all the time. I knew there was something, but I just couldn't put my finger on it.
Then I remembered ... the hands-down winner for me is putting semi-colons after values in a declared hash, instead of commas.
That is, I like to write long data structures in this format:
my $p_employee = {
'alice' => {
'salary' => 75000,
'hired' => 1176649545,
'manager' => 'bob',
},
'bob' => {
'salary' => 82000,
'hired' => 1145113545,
'manager' => 'carol',
},
'carol' => {
'salary' => 96000,
'hired' => 1145113545,
'manager' => 'thomas',
},
};
But invariably I end up putting semi-colons at the end of one or more lines -- for example:
my $p_employee = {
'alice' => {
'salary' => 75000,
'hired' => 1176649545,
'manager' => 'bob',
};
'bob' => {
'salary' => 82000,
'hired' => 1145113545,
'manager' => 'carol',
};
'carol' => {
'salary' => 96000,
'hired' => 1145113545,
'manager' => 'thomas',
},
};
It also seems to happen with a frequency in direct proportion to the complexity of the data structure. I'm pretty sure this has bitten me more than any other single class of error.
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