On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:30:19 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:26:47AM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>> > foreach_line { print } 'some/file';
>>
>> You really like underscores, do you?
>
>If all you got out of that thread was "Schwern likes underscores" then I
>explained iterators really, really, really badly.
Not really. But is was just the only thing I wanted to comment about.
I knew about iterators. I know that if Damian Conway gets his way,
they'll be added to Perl6.
It's just that I find them a bit hard to wrap my brain around them, so I
can't really share your enthusiasm. Perhaps when I get used to actually
using them, that I may end up seeing their beauty. But not just yet.
But I really really doubt if there's any computer language in the world
that uses underscores in their keywords. After all, in Perl, it's
"foreach" and not "for_each", is it?
So, even if your feature is added just the way you'd like it, you'll
likely still have to go searching for other names. Because names with
underscores in them will most likely not be considered acceptable.
--
Bart.
