Making Sense of Subroutines
Editor’s Note: This article has a followup in Advanced Subroutine Techniques. A subroutine (or routine, function, procedure, macro, etc.) is, at its heart, a named chunk of work. It’s shorthand that allows you to think about your problem in…
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Ten Essential Development Practices
The following ten tips come from Perl Best Practices, a new book of Perl coding and development guidelines by Damian Conway. 1. Design the Module’s Interface First The most important aspect of any module is not how it implements…
