It's all hyperbole, circular reasoning with bits hidden behind ellipsis... parboiled lexiconical sections. -y
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 01:43:44AM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> : The worst thing I had problems with in Perl was folks telling it >> : was "Lexiconical". What? I wish they would have also said "which >> : means Perl figures out your variables type on the fly, so you don't >> : have to type cast everything". >> >> Just so that nobody overgeneralizes this into a general Perl meme, let >> me point out that to the best of my recollection (which ain't as good >> as it used to was), I've never heard the term "lexiconical" used that >> way (or any way, really), and I'd be completely weirded out if someone >> used it that way, since dynamic typing (figuring out types on the fly) >> has almost nothing to do with either lexicons or lexical scoping. > > > I've heard it, and considered it someone being too clever for their own > good. Or anyone else's. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates > allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
