On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, at 12:30pm, Erik Price wrote: > For that matter, I find that the word "cannonical" is bandied about in > Perl culture far more than anywhere else! ;) Interesting for a language > in which there's more than one way to do things.
I suspect that is why. If there are many ways to do things, the community will likely want to settle on a subset of them. Hence the term "idiom", which also gets a lot of use in Perl. Consider these three English sentences: - That is Fred's pencil. - That pencil belongs to Fred. - That is the pencil of Fred. All three mean the same thing, but the first is by far the most common in American English. Perl is a lot like English. (Hmmm, that could be considered an insult to Perl. <grin>) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
