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Re: should "use byte" be "use bytes"?

From:
Larry Wall
Date:
February 9, 2000 13:00
Subject:
Re: should "use byte" be "use bytes"?
Message ID:
200002092058.MAA22201@kiev.wall.org
Ilya Zakharevich writes:
: Larry Wall writes:
: > I prefer bytes over octets because it's one <mumble> shorter.
: 
:   use 8bit;
: 
: Make this parse.

Offhand, I can't think of any reason not to, other than that people
will start clamoring for

    package 8bit;

and

    $8bit::foo
    
to parse too.  From there they'll want

    $8bit

to parse, and then

    s/(\d+)foo/$1bar/

may break.

Larry



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