ch04.029_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 4 of "Perl Best Practices"  ##
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##  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 constant {
    DEAR      => 'Greetings to you,',
    SINCERELY => 'May Heaven guard you from all misfortune,',
}; 
 
# and later...
 
my $msg = DEAR . $target_name 
       . "\n\n$scam_pitch\n\n"
       . SINCERELY 
       . "\n\n$fake_name";

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