Comments on: Being Helpful

By: Dave Cross

Dave Cross — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:08:41 +0000

This article by chromatic answers that question.

By: Ludovic

Ludovic — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:42:04 +0000

Dave – please can you explain why three-argument open() should be preferred to two-argument open()? I’ve been wondering about that.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:42:18 +0000

I for one welcome constructive criticism, and that’s exactly what you gave him according to your comment. I would continue posting refactorings just on the basis that his Perl was far from well written, and we don’t want people new to the language to pick up bad habits then release CPAN modules onto an unsuspecting world. Obnoxious was commenting that your criticism was obnoxious.
I hope you don’t let this get you down, and continue to help people, Dave. If that is the quality of code people are going to be subject to (http://scriptingmysql.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/convert-csv-file-to-mysql-database-via-perl/), then they are going to need all the help they can get!

By: Week Notes 10 | Davblog

Week Notes 10 | Davblog — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:13:26 +0000

[...] yesterday, I wrote a post over at my more technical blog, Perl [...]

By: Gabor Szabo

Gabor Szabo — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:27:27 +0000

Once I also tried to correct his code but when he told me he won’t fix his code as his boss is watching his code I gave up.
The way I think we can fight bad code examples is to publish lots of good code examples and link to each other so people will find our examples and not the bad ones.