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Lance · Jan 24th, 2005, 7:34 PM

Even better are ones without those unsightly curly brackets:

<statement> if <expression>;

Such as this useful one:

print "foo = $foo\n" if $DEBUG;

So then you can just define $DEBUG as 1 and easily use it to print out debug-only messages. Although, it's all quite surprising it doesn't work like in C:

if (<expression>) <statement>;

I find the C way the easiest, because if you need to add more statements later, simply add curly brackets. But noooo, Larry Wall has to go and make things backwards! Oh well, it's still readable...

Jan 24th, 2005, 7:34 PM	#3
Lance Programmer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chicago, IL USA Posts: 74 Rep Power: 4	Even better are ones without those unsightly curly brackets: <statement> if <expression>; Such as this useful one: print "foo = $foo\n" if $DEBUG; So then you can just define $DEBUG as 1 and easily use it to print out debug-only messages. Although, it's all quite surprising it doesn't work like in C: if (<expression>) <statement>; I find the C way the easiest, because if you need to add more statements later, simply add curly brackets. But noooo, Larry Wall has to go and make things backwards! Oh well, it's still readable... __________________ (Toggle Plain Text) /* LANCE / C++; / this makes C bigger but returns the old value / char site = "slackwise.net", home = "lance.slackwise.net", pics = "flickr.com/photos/slackwise"; /* LANCE / C++; / this makes C bigger but returns the old value / char site = "slackwise.net", home = "lance.slackwise.net", pics = "flickr.com/photos/slackwise";