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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Path: sparky!uunet!convex!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Perl language formatting conventions?
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.230556.15866@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:05:56 GMT
- Distribution: comp
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- From the keyboard of jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers):
- :Sounds like a win to me. Actually, I think it'd be more readable, more
- :mnemonic, and might even fit, if you used ':' instead of '=>'. Perhaps
- :that's another bit of trivia that could be worth a violent argument or
- :three. Would this conflict with other uses of ':'?
-
- Well, I at least am on record for voting for packname:variable
- as a more intuitive (and parsable) alias for packname'variable.
-
- --tom
-
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- pos += screamnext[pos] /* does this goof up anywhere? */
- --Larry Wall in util.c from the perl source code
-