On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> >
> > I've found the use of use English in code I had to maintain to be annoying
> > and unhelpful, and to actually degrade the maintainability of the code
> Y'know, I couldn't have said this better myself. :-) I've always felt
> that "use English" was a waste of time and effort, a bandaid trying to
> act as a tourniquet.
Well, I think it has some limited uses. Remember that not everyone
programs in perl all day everyday. Many competent people are only
occasionally perl programmers.
I find that I don't remember many of the less-frequently-used perlvars
(where less-frequently-used depends on the types of programs I write,
obviously). I certainly couldn't tell you off-hand the differences among
$< $> $( and $). I'd have to look them up. I think it's a nice little
bit of optional sugar and I don't see any reason to throw it away.
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
