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On Tue Jun 04 05:57:53 2013, aristotle wrote: > * Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2013-06-04 07:40]: > > But jaded means ‘bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having > > had too much of something’,* which is too negative, I think. > > The way I see the word used it means something like “blasé after too > much experience”, someone who remains detached because he’s seen it > all and was disillusioned. Implied by that is a sense of significant > experience, hence my comment. > > The man’s or the lady’s disillusionment, obviously, would stem from the > language. :-) (And let it be said here: I like the language. I enjoy > it in spite of some bizarre design choices in very everyday parts of the > language. I know this is going off-topic a bit, but I feel the same way. The most bizarre case I’ve found is the behaviour of with(...) var foo = .... The variable declaration creates a global (or function) variable at compile time (or function entry), but at run time it may refer to an object in the with() scope! -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=117507Thread Previous