Re: [PATCH lib/lib.pm 5.005_63] Removing use of vars.pm

[Pete Jordan <pjordan1@email.mot.com>]

Larry Wall wrote:

> Martyn Pearce writes:
>
> : I wonder why?  In comparison to the two above, I tend to go for
> :
> : my ($FOO, $BAR, $BAZ) = ("foo", "bar", "baz");
> :
> : being both concise and initializing.
> 
> The problem with that is the separation between the variable name and
> its value.  And the more elements in the list, the worse it gets.

I sometimes tend toward:

my ($FOO,  $BAR,  $BAZ)=
   ("foo", "bar", "baz");

in this situation.

Pete
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