--- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Landgren wrote: > > I wish you'd s/Got/Actual/ or Received. Got must die. > > Why's that?
"Got" is the simple past of "to get". Informally it's often used as the past tense of "to have" -- as in Test::More diagnostics. While it's not exactly on par with slang, the "got/expected" pair is an informal/formal combination and just reads strangely as a result. Compare: She got an idea. (possibly correct, but informal and reads poorly) She had an idea. (correct and reads much better) As for "received/expected", I really like it because it reads very nicely (the verbs aren't quite the opposite of each other, but I still like 'em). Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
