[Boston.pm] Is set a perl keyword?

2008-10-15 Thread Greg London
Odd question, and me without any perl books nearby: Is set a perl command or key word or reserved word or whatever? I seem to be able to use it as a subroutine name in perl5, but I wasn't sure if it had any other meaning to the parser. The question would extend into perl 6, if anyone is familiary

Re: [Boston.pm] Is set a perl keyword?

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Greg London wrote: Odd question, and me without any perl books nearby: Is set a perl command or key word or reserved word or whatever? They let you have perldoc, right? $ perldoc -f set No documentation for perl function `set' found That implies no. They let you

Re: [Boston.pm] Is set a perl keyword?

2008-10-15 Thread Jerrad Pierce
I don't see how it could be, given the need for get/set accessors in OOP. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Pungenday, the 69th of Bureaucracy, in the YOLD 3174: The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Re: [Boston.pm] Is set a perl keyword?

2008-10-15 Thread Bill Ricker
They let you have perldoc, right? They let you have Google, right? or, http://perldoc.perl.org/search.html?q=set which is shortcut Bookmarks/Keymarks/[perldoc] = http://perldoc.perl.org/search.html?q=%s in my Firefox. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]