On 2009 Jan 30, at 11:30, 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,
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:11:42AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:30:25AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
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
Mark (), Moritz (), Larry via commit bot ():
+PERL# Lexical symbols in the standard perlude
Did you mean prelude instead?
I took the quotation marks to indicate an intentional
misspelling/coinage: perl + prelude = perlude.
At which point one might ask oneself whether it is more
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:49:13AM +0100, Carl Mäsak wrote:
: Mark (), Moritz (), Larry via commit bot ():
: +PERL# Lexical symbols in the standard perlude
:
: Did you mean prelude instead?
:
: I took the quotation marks to indicate an intentional
: misspelling/coinage: perl +
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote:
We want something that comes
outside your program, that is, a lexical scope that *surrounds* the
file scope. We don't have a good word for that: circumlude? ambilude?
[...]
Or we could go with a more linguistic contextual
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
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:30:25AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
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?
For my dog Sally, the sound of one tail wagging
I took the quotation marks to indicate an intentional
misspelling/coinage: perl + prelude = perlude.
On 1/29/09, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote:
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
+PERL# Lexical symbols in the standard perlude
Did you mean prelude instead?
Moritz
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
+PERL# Lexical symbols in the standard perlude
Did you mean prelude instead?
Moritz
