On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can never be certain in *any* case. Check if you're not sure what it > means. Because sometimes languages use some term in a way you don't expect, > whether because they drew it from some specific discipline (Haskell uses a > lot of terminilogy from abstract mathematics, for example) or for some > reason (I've hit a few cases where the language author didn't know the > actual meaning of some term and used it "oddly" as a result). > > https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary > > Which doesn't have "pragma" in it, probably because it's not specific to > Perl. It's been around, and used in this sense, since at least the 1960s > and probably earlier. > ... but does have "whitespace" and "variable" in it, neither of which is specific to Perl. :-P Isn't the lack of "pragma" there an omission to be corrected? Particularly if the term is required for the reading of error messages? Eirik
