Index: trunk/doc/misc/perlCodeConventions.tex
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--- trunk/doc/misc/perlCodeConventions.tex	(revision 2379)
+++ trunk/doc/misc/perlCodeConventions.tex	(revision 2381)
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-%%% $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}
 
@@ -643,5 +643,7 @@
 \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.