Somehow I am always surprised to see other people mention me in books and whatnot (I mean, why else would someone start a magazine unless they think they need attention? :)
But this week I saw it twice. I had a couple of trips to the VA Hospital for some routine, back from the Middle East sorta things, so each day I took along a book to read.
Monday I took Peter Scott's latest gem, Perl Medic. The first thing I noticed with "The Perl Review" in big letters on the front next to a quote from Adam Turoff. Of all the things Adam could have associated himself with, he chose TPR. Okay, cool. Inside, Peter mentions Test::Pod, and hence me, on page 37. However, the book is already out of date because Andy Lester completely changed the module and now it has a different module.
Today I took Peter Scott's (and Ed Wright's) first gem, Perl Debugged, which I bought for $91 at The Perl Foundation auction. I didn't pay as much as Michel Rodriquez who outbid me at $100 before they let on they had a second copy. I found my name on page 41 when the authors listed a bunch of people with nice coding styles.
It still seems really odd to see my name along with the names of truly cool people.
I found my name on page 41 when the authors listed a bunch of people with nice coding styles.
I won't disagree that you have a nice coding style, but it is a bit unique:
if( open my( $fh ), ">> $ENV{HOME}/mail/fix-addresses" )
{
print $fh "$_\n";
}
else
{
print "$_: Problem: $!";
}
I've always wondered how that came about. I must confess that I found it a bit jarring when I first saw it.
Re:Coding styles
brian_d_foy on 2004-08-19T06:03:41
I made it up before I had a lot of other code to look at. I like lots of whitespace, and I don't like to stick parens and braces far away from the thing they enclose. Otherwise, I get confused.
It's kinda like optional Python.:) Re:Coding styles
brian_d_foy on 2004-08-19T06:18:16
Worse yet, this is the style of code that Peter and Ed used in Perl Debugged. I didn't realize anyone else did it like that.Re:Coding styles
Dom2 on 2004-08-19T07:23:55
It's called the "whitesmith" style by emacs. According to the manual for cc-mode, Popularized by the examples that came with Whitesmiths C, an early commercial C compiler.-Dom
