Re: RFC 223 (v1) Objects: C pragma

[Philip Newton]

On 14 Sep 2000, at 14:18, Nathan Wiger wrote:

> Before you balk at #1 in favor of religious flexibility, please consider
> how unmaintainable Perl code would be if @ARGV, or $AUTOLOAD, or STDERR,
> or @INC, or chomp(), or split(), or any other widely-used variable or
> function was renameable. If you don't shudder at this, I would argue you
> probably don't maintain enough of others' code.

*ANNOYNATE = *ARGV;
use English;

I remember reading a bit of example code somewhere from someone 
who religiously used English. It was fairly annoying seeing functions 
operate on $ARG instead of $_, and subroutine were passed @ARG....

Cheers,
Philip