Follow-up Comment #3, bug #62150 (project groff):
[comment #2 comment #2:]
> I have conflicting goals.
As some internet wag once said, "I don't have a solution, but I admire the
problem."
(And anyway, this part of the patch is off the topic of this ticket.)
> I prefer semantic to misleading variable names. ;-)
Won't argue against that precept...but "$font" seems a fairly solid variable
name to hold a font name.
> Perl is not the level of programming where we need to emulate
> a register allocator.
True, but I was thinking more of the human reader. I read that, and I think,
"oh, he's preserving the old value so he can use it again later." However, I
cannot vouch that my interpretation is universal, or even common.
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