Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Perl's similarity to English is one of the things that makes it Fun.
> >
> > OTOH, being fun (which I admit it is) is one of the reasons many
> > people don't want to think Perl is a serious language.
> >
> > Not saying we should eliminate all the fun; but keeping something
> > on the merit of it's being fun is probably at odds with the goal
> > of make Perl more widely acceptable.
>
> Someone want to RFC a "fun" pragma:
>
> #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
>
> no fun; # for you!
>
> Actually, Tim Maher and I were discussing something not entirely dissimilar
> for the purpose of teaching:
>
> use Training::Wheels;
> or:
> no Weird::Stuff;
>
> Hmmmmm. I feel a paper coming on...
I always like to say that one of the cute things about perl is that it
lets you program in a bondage and discipline style if that's what you
want. However, unlike any other B&D language that springs to mind,
perl lets you have safewords.
Or should that be an unsafeword?
Personally I welcome the addition of more bondage and discipline to
the language, but *only* if the safeword principle is adhered to too.
--
Piers
