Re: replacement of $
At 15:04 -0800 1/4/06, Larry Wall wrote: Recently I had time to think about the $ symbol we use in Perl. I think Perl has been using the USD symbol for too long, and I'm now sure that it's time to replace it. After some research I came to the conclusion that the best fit is the euro symbol (¤). So, spread the word, Perl 6 will require you to replace all the $ in your scripts with ¤. That's just a regex after all... But $ isn't specifically a USD symbol. Its used by Canada and Australia too, if not more places. Its multi-country like the Euro is. Perhaps what we need is a more universal currency. I suggest gold. So every relevant symbol name could start with 'Au' instead of '$', and an advantage of this is that it is still easy to type on any keyboard. -- Darren Duncan
Re: replacement of $
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 03:11:27PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : : : Recently I had time to think about the $ symbol we use in Perl. : : I think Perl has been using the USD symbol for too long, and I'm now sure : that it's time to replace it. After some research I came to the conclusion : that the best fit is the euro symbol (€). : : So, spread the word, Perl 6 will require you to replace all the $ in your : scripts with €. That's just a regex after all... Hmm, like anyone's going to believe you... Anyone can forge Larry-like email. Look how easy it is for *me* to forge email from Larry even though I'm in Japan right now. All you have to do is end most of your paragraphs with ... and throw in a few Hmms here and there And then there's all these checkins I've been forging from Audrey. Piece o' cake... Now, gettin' myself made up to look like Larry for the Bugs Manifesto, that was a wee bit more challenging, but I think most people were fooled... TomTiady, AKA 落第の駱駝, AKA Larry Boy (the tsukemono, not the pickle)
Re: replacement of $
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 02:04:07 +0300, Larry Wall wrote: ^^^-- (actually that was IDT in the headers) Hi, I'm in Israel and Japan at the same time! Nice one though ;-) plugIf you guys would have participated in the keysigning parties.../plug -- Yuval Kogman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nothingmuch.woobling.org 0xEBD27418 pgpAaFxAF3CvE.pgp Description: PGP signature
