ch02.072_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 2 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 @items;
my @requested_items = qw( world peace free love );

my @months = qw(
    January   February   March
    April     May        June
    July      August     September
    October   November   December 
);
 
for my $item (@requested_items) {
    push @items, (
        "A brand new $item",
        "A fully refurbished $item",
        "A ratty old $item",
    );
}
 
print (
    'Processing ',

    scalar(@items),
    ' items at ',
    time,
    "\n",
);