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07-18-2016

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Well, like you guys, I write a lot of code, and have a lot of sites, passwords, scripts, etc across many sites.. a lot of IT.

Even the best written code can be hard to understand after we have not touched it for a month or two, let alone a year or more.

So, I learned the hard way many years ago not to write "fancy one liners" and write well documented code and scripts.

Maybe I am being too simple here; but when I was a young lad my mother used to say 'Neo (well, not really Neo... haha), always put things back where you keep them in the same place, that way when you need them again, you don't waste time looking for it"..... and that is what I do not, even thought I never did it when I was young, of course!

The same is true with code... but the twist is different... always make sure your code is easy to read and self documenting as possible (clear variable names, simple clear logic etc, not fancy one-liners) because when we need to go back and work on that code again, we don't want to waste time trying to understand what we did before......

... and my mom would be proud of me, I always put my tools back in the toolbox now, always put my scissors back in the same place, always put my car and motorcycle keys in the same place after I use them.... and so my life is so easy as I never waste time trying to find that stuff anymore. LOL

Just keep it simple and life will be easy and less stress, and we then have more time for other things that are more fun.... that is my view.

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Forest(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       Forest(3pm)

NAME

       Forest - A collection of n-ary tree related modules

DESCRIPTION

       Forest is intended to be a replacement for the Tree::Simple family of modules, and fixes many of the issues that have always bothered me
       about them. It is by no means a complete replacement yet, but should eventually grow to become that.

       For more information please refer to the individual module documentation, starting with Forest::Tree.

TODO

       More documentation
	   This is 0.09 so it is (still) lacking quite a bit of docs (I am being really lazy sorry).  Although I invite people to read the source,
	   it is quite simple really.

       More tests
	   The coverage is in the low 90s, but there is still a lot of behavioral stuff that could use some testing too.

SEE ALSO

       Tree::Simple
	   I wrote this module a few years ago and I had served me well, but recently I find myself getting frustrated with some of the uglier
	   bits of this module. So Forest is a re-write of this module.

       Tree
	   This is an ambitious project to replace all the Tree related modules with a single core implementation. There is some good code in
	   here, but the project seems to be very much on the back-burner at this time.

       OCaml port of Forest
	   Ask me about the OCaml port of this module, it is also sitting on my hard drive waiting for release. It actually helped quite a bit in
	   terms of helping me settle on the APIs for this module. Static typing can be very helpful sometimes.

BUGS

       All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to
       cpan-RT.

AUTHOR

       Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>

       With contributions from:

       Yuval (nothingmuch) Kogman

       Guillermo (groditi) Roditi

       Florian (rafl) Ragwitz

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2008-2010 Infinity Interactive, Inc.

       <http://www.iinteractive.com>

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2010-10-24							       Forest(3pm)