#!/usr/bin/perl # Learning RPerl, Chapter 4, Exercise 4 # Subroutine & driver to greet users # [[[ HEADER ]]] use RPerl; use strict; use warnings; our $VERSION = 0.001_000; # [[[ CRITICS ]]] ## no critic qw(ProhibitUselessNoCritic ProhibitMagicNumbers RequireCheckedSyscalls) # USER DEFAULT 1: allow numeric values & print operator # [[[ SUBROUTINES ]]] sub greet { { my string $RETURN_TYPE }; ( my string $name, my string $previous_name ) = @ARG; print 'Hi ', $name, '! '; if ($previous_name eq q{}) { print 'You are the first one here!', "\n"; } else { print $previous_name, ' is also here!', "\n"; } return $name; } # [[[ OPERATIONS ]]] my string $previous_name = q{}; $previous_name = greet('Fred', $previous_name); $previous_name = greet('Barney', $previous_name); $previous_name = greet('Wilma', $previous_name); $previous_name = greet('Betty', $previous_name);