ch02.073_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT 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"
      ;