Perl Style

Dec 31, 1997 by Tom Christiansen

Contents

1. Everyone Has an Opinion
2. Program Perl, Not C/BASIC/Java/Pascal/etc
3. Elegance
4. Defensive Programming
5. The Art of Commenting Code
6. On the Naming of Names (Form)
7. On the Naming of Names (Content)
8. Length of Variable Names
9. Parallelism
10. Embrace && and || for Control and Values
11. Learn Precedence
12. Don’t Overdo `?:’
13. Never define “TRUE” and “FALSE”
14. Embrace Pattern Matching
15. Changing en passant
16. Negative Array Subscripts
17. Embrace Hashes
18. Use Hashes for Sets
19. Use Hashes for the First Time
20. Use Hashes of Records, not Parallel Arrays
21. Use $_ in Short Code
22. Use foreach() Loops
23. Avoid Byte Processing
24. Avoid Symbolic References
25. Using A Hash Instead of $$name
26. Avoid Testing eof
27. Avoid Gratuitous Backslashes
28. Reduce Complexity
29. Reduce Complexity (solution)
30. Loop Hoisting
31. Break Complex Tasks Up
32. Break Programs into Separate Processes
33. Data-Oriented Programming
34. Configuration Files
35. Functions as Data
36. Closures
37. Learn to Switch with for
38. Switch by Using do{} Creatively
39. Switch with for via && and ||
40. Switch Using for and do{} Even More Creatively
41. The Care and Feeding of Modules
42. Patches
43. From Perlstyle (part 1)
44. From Perlstyle (part 2)