At 15.02 -0700 01-05-15, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>The only worry/problem/etc that I wonder about is the potential overuse
>of the "is" keyword. It is a very nice syntactic tool, but when I see
>something like this:
>
> $*ARGS is chomped;
>
>I wonder if that wouldn't be better phrased as:
>
> autochomp $*ARGS; # $ARGS.autochomp
I see your point, but I see a clear difference between these
properties and actions taken on the variable. When we say $*ARGS is
chomped, we don't ask $*ARGS to do anything right away, just remember
that when we later ask it to return something, we want that something
chomped.
Cajo
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