Larry Wall wrote: > So I'm open to suggestions for what we ought to call that envelope > if we don't call it the prelude or the perlude. Locale is bad, > environs is bad, context is bad...the wrapper? But we have dynamic > wrappers already, so that's bad. Maybe the setting, like a jewel? > That has a nice static feeling about it at least, as well as a feeling > of surrounding. > > Or we could go with a more linguistic contextual metaphor. Argot, > lingo, whatever... > > So anyway, just because other languages call it a prelude doesn't > mean that we have to. Perl is the tail that's always trying to > wag the dog... > > What is the sound of one tail wagging?
whoosh, whoosh. I tend to like "setting", because it makes me think of the setting of a play, in which the actors (i.e., objects) perform their assigned roles in following the script. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
