Perl Best Practices

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languages 2nd

last statement

     best practices

     flow of control and

     loop labels and

     recoverable failure and

"last" as ambiguous name

last_index function

"left" as ambiguous name

lexical variables

     @_ and

     best practices 2nd 3rd

     constants and

     declaration scope and

     eval function and

     filehandles and 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

     loops and

     my keyword

     overview

     restricting

Lexical::Alias module (CPAN) 2nd

lib/ subdirectory

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT template

line boundaries

lines

     best practice

     breaking

     comments and

     empty

     lists breaking across

     multiple statements on

     recommended length 2nd

     strings over multiple

link function

Linnaean system

List::Cycle module (CPAN)

List::MoreUtils module (CPAN)

     any function

     best practices

     description

     functions

     utilities

List::Util module (CPAN)

     best practices

     description

     functions 2nd

     interfaces and

     utilities

lists

     best practice 2nd 3rd

     circular linked

     code layout 2nd

     commas in 2nd 3rd 4th

     concatenating

     contextual return values

     filtering

     generating 2nd

     processing side-effects

     readability of

     reversing 2nd

     scalar return values and

     selecting

     slice factoring

     testing membership 2nd

     transforming 2nd 3rd

     values and expressions

local declaration 2nd 3rd

localization

     best practice

     filehandles and

     package variables 2nd

     punctuation variables 2nd

localtime function 2nd 3rd

lock_hash( ) subroutine

lock_keys( ) subroutine

lock_value( ) subroutine

Log::Stdlog module (CPAN)

long numbers 2nd

looks_like_number( ) subroutine 2nd

loop iterator variables

loops

     abbreviations in

     automatic progress indicators for

     best practices 2nd 3rd 4th

     configuration files and

     contorted

     do-while

     error handling and 2nd

     eval function and

     for statements and 2nd

     grep function and

     incrementing and

     input

     labeling 2nd 3rd

     lvalues and

     map function and

     named lexicals and

     postfix modifiers and

     recoverable failure and

     reversing lists and

     subscripting in

     tied variables and

     unnecessary subscripting

     unpack function and

lvalue accessors

lvalue substring 2nd