| rGeoffrey on Wed, 15 May 2002 14:18:44 -0400 |
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At 13:32 05/15/2002, Eric Roode wrote: Use of & to invoke functions is bad form. Has undesirable side effects. When I started working at my current job I followed the style used in the group, which was to always use the &function () method of calling subroutines. The big reason given for using the '&', which is not really needed, is that it makes it easier to read and much easier to grep through the code looking for subroutine calls. I have started to leave the '&' off in my newer code, but I am still not sure why it matters. What makes it 'bad form'? **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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