Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:11:18 -0400
From: tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: converting shell "sort" command to perl..
Message-Id: <slrn9jrjvm.qdi.tadmc@tadmc26.august.net>

John W. Krahn <krahnj@acm.org> wrote:
>Patrick Erler wrote:

>> $#ARGV >= 1 or die "Usage:\n\t$0 [logfile]\n";
>
>@ARGV == 1 or die "Usage:\n\t$0 [logfile]\n";


That's good if you'd like to emphasize the condition rather than
the Usage message.

It's only a style choice, but I like to emphasize the action here
rather than the condition:

   die "Usage:\n\t$0 [logfile]\n" unless @ARGV == 1;

That even sounds a little Englishy: "die unless one arg".



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    Tad McClellan                          SGML consulting
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