ch04.028_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 4 of "Perl Best Practices"    ##
##     Copyright (c) O'Reilly & Associates, 2005. All Rights Reserved.      ##
##  See: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html  ##
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# Standard modules...
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;

my $scam_pitch  = 'I am the former aide to General Sir Kame Obakwe...';
my $fake_name   = 'Winston Ubeki';
my $target_name = 'John';

use Readonly;
Readonly my $DEAR      => 'Greetings to you,';
Readonly my $SINCERELY => 'May Heaven guard you from all misfortune,'; 

 
# and later...
 
my $msg = <<"END_MSG";
$DEAR $target_name
 
$scam_pitch
 
$SINCERELY
 
$fake_name
END_MSG


use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [ $msg ];