[m-dev.] for review: enhancements to mtags script

[David Matthew Overton]

On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 04:55:39PM +1000, Andrew Bromage wrote:
> 
> Quite a few times, there appears this construction:
> 
> > +		    $_ = <srcfile>;
> > +		    chop;
> > +		    $body = $_;
> 
> Wouldn't it be simpler (and cleaner) to use this?
> 
> 	$body = <srcfile>;
> 	chop $body;
> 
Probably.  I just copied the style that was already in the script,
assuming that the person who originally wrote it must have known what
they were doing better than a Perl newbie like me.

David
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