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Writing 2014-05-08

Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

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PBP: 016 Breaking Long Lines

Monday, June 23rd, 2014

This Practice is about how to break long lines of code.  It suggests breaking them before an operator, so the operator serves as a visual cue on the left, where you’re likely to be reading, that this line is continued from last time.

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Writing 2014-05-07

Sunday, June 22nd, 2014

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Writing 2014-05-06

Sunday, June 22nd, 2014

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Writing 2014-05-05

Sunday, June 22nd, 2014

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Writing 2014-05-04

Sunday, June 22nd, 2014

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PBP: 015 Vertical Alignment

Thursday, June 19th, 2014

The Perl Best Practices suggest to align things vertically.  They like to apace things out into neat rows of equals, fat commas, braces, and parenthesis.  Columns of data, when it will fit, are also approved of. (more…)

PBP: 014 Elses

Monday, June 16th, 2014

The PBP suggests that you don’t “cuddle” an else.  This means that the else and it’s opening parenthesis starts on its own line: (more…)

Writing 2014-05-03

Sunday, June 15th, 2014

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Writing 2014-05-02

Sunday, June 15th, 2014

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