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Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Juerd wrote:
>
>> Nathan Wiger skribis 2005-04-25 13:35 (-0700):
>>
>>> My point is simply that we pick one or the other, instead of
>>> both/aliases/etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> But TIMTOWTDI. One way may be great for writing maintainable code, while
>> the other is useful in oneliners (including single line method
>> definitions).
>
>
> Then I suggest "use English" for Perl 6 too. I think you'll find that,
> like Perl 5, people always use the short forms.
>
> Has ANYONE on this list ever done something like this?
>
> use English;
> if ($OSNAME =~ /MSWin32/) {
> $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH++;
> local $WARNING = 0;
> print "Windoze\n" or die "Can't print: $OS_ERROR";
> }
>
Not exactly a fair comparison, since it's common to not "use English"
due to the $& issue.
I suspect that if that was not the case, it would be used more.
-- Rod Adams
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