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From:
Chip Salzenberg
Date:
August 18, 2003 15:51
Subject:
Re: [perl #10030] DESTROY not called on code reference objects
Message ID:
20030818224803.GC3424@perlsupport.com
According to Kurt Starsinic:
> Remember the etymology of "closure."

Etymology doesn't define usage, it merely illuminates its origins.
Were most everyone to say that X is not Y, then in a linguistic sense
it is reasonable to say that X is not Y, no matter the etymology of Y.

And yes that makes me a total descriptivist.  But how can a Perl person
be otherwise, really?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K

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