> Am I reading this right? Are you actually defending the lowest common > denominator of language design? The paragraph above
Not language design but coding in an appropriate subset. English and Perl are both special because TIMTOWTDI. My personal toolkit at the office is a more HOPish style than things I turn over to Production Support, and my home scripts are looser dialect yet - just as my English dialect is freer with friends than with VPs or Grandmothers, IM looser than email than Memo. Nor do I use the full range of literary English vocabulary in multiethnic business context Inside a "do not touch" magic module, map away. In code for yourself or for Perl Monks, to show the power of the language, map away. In code to be maintained by low cost corporate maintenance programmers, the the readable subset is responsible to your customer. A corporate style guide based on Damian's PBP may well restrict 'map' usage to specific well understood cases - or may assume all new hires are issued a copy of Dominus's HOP. But it should choose, and be consistently observed. Bill Ricker, typing with thumbs ... _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
