ch10.013_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 10 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;


# Log system uses a weird but distinctive naming scheme...
Readonly my $ACTIVE_LOG => '>temp.log<';
Readonly my $STATIC_LOG => '>perm.log<';
 
# and later...
 
open my $active, '<', $ACTIVE_LOG  or croak "Can't open $ACTIVE_LOG: $OS_ERROR";
open my $static, '>', $STATIC_LOG  or croak "Can't open $STATIC_LOG: $OS_ERROR";