Perl - Common gotchas
The question on [Hidden features of Perl][1] yielded at least one response that could be regarded as either a feature or a mis-feature.  It seemed logical to follow up with this question: What are common non-obvious mistakes in Perl?  Things that seem like they ought to work, but don't.

I won't give guidelines as to how to structure answers, or what's "too easy" to be considered a gotcha, since that's what the voting is for (and because I'm probably going to find out things that I consider gotchas are actually just noob mistakes ;).

See Also: [ASP.NET - Common gotchas][2]


  [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161872/hidden-features-of-perl
  [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/66117/aspnet-common-gotchas
Perl - Common gotchas
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The question on [Hidden features of Perl][1] yielded at least one response that could be regarded as either a feature or a mis-feature.  It seemed logical to follow up with this question: What are common non-obvious mistakes in Perl?  Things that seem like they ought to work, but don't.

I won't give guidelines as to how to structure answers, or what's "too easy" to be considered a gotcha, since that's what the voting is for (and because I'm probably going to find out things that I consider gotchas are actually just noob mistakes ;).

See Also: [ASP.NET - Common gotchas][2]


  [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161872/hidden-features-of-perl
  [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/66117/aspnet-common-gotchas