From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kraus) writes: > >Not sure how to help you I do not that it is not very common to refer > >to $ as dollar unless your talking about dollars. Generally when > >dealing with computers it is a representation of the word string and > >is spoken as such. > > > >String-underscore. > > I've never heard that. I've been to dozens of meetings and > conferences, heard thousands of people talking about Perl, and never > before have I heard $_ referred to as anything other than "dollar > underscore" or occasionally "dollar underbar". > > Strings are a small subset of possible values for scalars. If $ were > mnemonic for anything, it would be "scalar", not "string".
I believe the "string" comes from some versions of Basic (and maybe also Fortran) that used the $ to distinguish string versus numerical variables. If I remember right "Var$" was a string variable and "Var" was a numerical variable. And we used to read the $ as "string". Though ... at those times we did not know any english so we read all keywords quite strange ;-) Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
