Re: Advice to Perl Trainers

[email protected] (Peter Scott) writes:

> Don't type "my $self = shift" (or shift anything else) without
> practice.  It is too easy to typo and leave the 'f' out of
> 'shift'.

I see no harm than that this will cause an occasional laugh.

> For some reason I am more prone to making this 
> mistake in front of an audience than when coding alone.

You can get treatment for that :-).

Seriously: I am a very bad typist but a fast corrector. I've never had
any problems or weird reactions to whatever garbage sometimes appeared
on the screen.

-- Johan