[ale] Perl coding style

[Brandon Wood]

Using a main block is fine; I've seen it suggested many times by people I
consider to be competent Perl programmers. Not sure why anyone should get
mad at that.

Oh, wait, that's right, we're talking on the Internet...   :P


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

> On 01/18/2013 10:43 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>
>> Of course, it might have to do with geezer-coders (like me) who learned
>> C first. You have to define a subroutine before you can use it in C. You
>> can either write an explicit function prototype (e.g. "int
>> my_dog_sex(char *,int);" ) before calling your function, or you can
>> define the whole function before calling it.  This makes it more
>> convenient to put  your functions above your main() call, as then you
>> didn't have to type in or maintain prototype lines in addition to the
>> functions themselves.
>>
>
>
> Yes.  My motivation for doing the main() is because it makes it much
> easier to figure out where the program "starts".
>
>
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