On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 08:56, Ronald J Kimball made a bunch of excellent points about what > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:40:34AM -0500, david nicol wrote: ... > I don't understand the value in adding this paragraph to the documentation > for $;. "Hastily contrived" does not sound like a good recommendation for > a module. I am the hubris kid. By my example I give permission for your outstanding feats of hubris too. > (Mnemonic: comma (the syntactic subscript separator) is a > semi-semicolon. Yes, this is lame, but C<$,> is already taken for > something more important.) I don't think its lame. I don't think the feature belongs buried in the documentatio of the line noise variables either; I think the feature needs to be introduced in perlsyn. Wherever we're supposed to learn about writing hash slices @hash{@key_subset} because it looks so similar to it.Thread Previous | Thread Next