Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!frankland-river!pem From: pem@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au (Paul E. Maisano) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest Message-ID: <1297@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au> Date: 9 Mar 90 09:56:25 GMT References: <15230@bfmny0.UU.NET> <15232@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1118@etnibsd.UUCP> Organization: Australian AI Institute Lines: 13 Everytime I write a perl script I invariably leave out the & from a subroutine call. I have only been using perl for about two months so I guess I just haven't got used to it yet. It's not really a bug (refering back to the subject line) but neither is forgetting not to put a comma after a filehandle in a print statement. ------------------ Paul E. Maisano Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute 1 Grattan St. Carlton, Vic. 3053, Australia Ph: +613 663-7922 Fax: +613 663-7937 Email: pem@aaii.oz.au UUCP: {uunet,mcsun,ukc,nttlab}!munnari!aaii.oz.au!pem