On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 04:09:36PM -0500, david nicol wrote: > 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 $;. "Hastily contrived" does not sound like a good recommendation for > > a module. > > I am the hubris kid. By my example I give permission for your > outstanding feats of hubris too. I'm not sure what you mean. I think if a module is worth mentioning in the core documentation, it should probably be better than "hastily contrived". :) > > (Mnemonic: comma (the syntactic subscript separator) is a > > semi-semicolon. Yes, this is lame, but C<$,> 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. The feature is not lame, the mnemonic is: "semi-semicolon". Hash slices are documented in perldata. This feature could certainly be mentioned there. RonaldThread Previous | Thread Next