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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
May 10, 2001 07:51
Subject:
Re: what I meant about hungarian notation
Message ID:
200105101450.HAA28656@kiev.wall.org
Hillary writes:
: >I happen to like $ and @.  They're not going away in standard Perl as
: >long as I have anything to do with it.  Nevertheless, my vision for Perl
: >is that it enable people to do what *they* want, not what I want.
: >
: >Larry
: 
: If only that were true...But it isn't true. It was never true. And you 
: knew that
: it wasn't true when you said it. Of course, you can sit behind the 
: definition
: of *they*...After all, who are "they"?

No, I'll sit behind my definition of "vision".

Larry
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