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That's why you make it as parameter

• perl4ever 8y ago
  One might contemplate the question of why people use config files in some cases and command-line parameters in others. Having a section for constants at the beginning of a script resembles a config file to some extent.
  • TeMPOraL 8y ago
    Implicit assumption that other people's code is off-limits? Most software on my machine has probably arrived from apt-get at some point or another. Even if it's all Perl scripts, I'm not going to overwrite them directly, only to have my changes either removed on update, or blowing up the package manager's consistency checksums, or [insert random reason I can't conceive, because I'm not familiar with internals of apt]. So it's either config files, command line, environmental variables, or I'm going to build a wrapper that bends installed software to my will.