ch12.119_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 12 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;

Readonly my @EXIT_WORDS => qw( 
    q  quit  bye  exit  stop  done  last  finish  aurevoir 
);

use List::MoreUtils  qw( any );
 
# Quit command has several variants...
COMMAND:
for my $cmd ( qw( hi how are you finish) ) {
    last COMMAND if any { $cmd eq $_ } @EXIT_WORDS;
    print "Executing: $cmd\n";
}