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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.210646.16041@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 10 Mar 90 21:06:46 GMT
References: <15230@bfmny0.UU.NET> <15232@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1118@etnibsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.lang.perl
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1118@etnibsd.UUCP> by vsh@etnibsd.UUCP (Steve Harris):
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| So, what are the "TEN MOST COMMON NOVICE BUGS" in perl?  I nominate:
| 
|     Placing a comma after a filehandle in a print statement.
| 
| Anybody care to add more?  Novices, SPEAK UP!!
| Experts, try to remember when you weren't!
+---------------

1) forgetting that "if (EXPR) BLOCK" *requires* the {}
2) not saving $0, ..., $9 across regexps, or $0 at the start of a program

Just another Perl diver,						;-)
++Brandon
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