Perl Best Practices

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backslash (\) 2nd 3rd

backtracking

barewords

     ampersand and

     best practices 2nd

     constants and

     filehandles and

     in values and expressions 2nd

     subroutine calls and

base 8

base classes

     best practice

     inheritance and 2nd

     initializing

base module

"bases" as ambiguous name

BBEdit editor

Benchmark module 2nd

benchmarking

     best practices

     caching strategies 2nd

     overview

bless function 2nd

blessed( ) subroutine 2nd

block form

     if keyword 2nd 3rd

     postfix form and

blocks

     any function and

     best practice 2nd

     code layout and

     grep function and 2nd

     map function and 2nd

     semicolons and 2nd

Boehm's Law

boilerplates

     best practice

     extended 2nd

     overview

booleans

     best practice

     Contextual::Return module

     conversion subroutines for

     missing arguments and

     multi-contextual return values

     naming conventions

     precedence operators and

braces { }

     as delimiters

     bracketing

     empty hashes and

     filehandles and

     keywords and

     references in

     subroutines and variables

     vertical alignment of

bracketing 2nd

BSD bracketing 2nd

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS template

BUILD( ) method

     construction/destruction and 2nd

     cumulative methods and

Build.PL

built-in functions

     automating sorts 2nd

     best practice 2nd 3rd

     code layout and 2nd

     error handling and 2nd

     factoring out

     fixed-width data

     globbing

     grepping 2nd

     hash values

     homonyms and 2nd

     mapping 2nd

     parentheses and 2nd

     reversing lists 2nd

     reversing scalars 2nd

     separated data 2nd

     sleeping 2nd

     sorting

     string evaluations

     substrings 2nd

     utilities

     variable-width data