Changeset 2381 for trunk/doc/misc/perlCodeConventions.tex

Timestamp:

Nov 17, 2004, 10:51:07 AM (22 years ago)

Author:

jhoblitt

Message:

don't needlessly initialize variables

File:

• trunk/doc/misc/perlCodeConventions.tex (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/doc/misc/perlCodeConventions.tex

@@ -1 @@
-%%% $Id: perlCodeConventions.tex,v 1.21 2004-11-17 00:08:50 jhoblitt Exp $
+%%% $Id: perlCodeConventions.tex,v 1.22 2004-11-17 20:51:07 jhoblitt Exp $
 \documentclass[panstarrs]{panstarrs}
 
@@ -643 +643 @@
 \subsection{Initialization}
 
-Try to initialize local variables where they're declared.  The only
+Try to initialize local variables where they're declared.  Do not initalize
+variables with an empty string or list - this is pointless.
+
 reason not to initialize a variable where it's declared is if the
 initial value depends on some computation occurring first.