Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-31 Thread David Green
On 2008-Jan-26, at 9:58 am, Larry Wall wrote: My first thought is that this is such a common idiom that we ought to have some syntactic sugar for it: say Received $m message\s. I've always wanted a magic-S (and I don't think the anglocentrism matters, because Perl is already pretty

Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-31 Thread Mark Overmeer
* David Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080131 08:48]: I've always wanted a magic-S (and I don't think the anglocentrism matters, because Perl is already pretty anglocentric -- more so than plural S's, which apply to some other languages anyway). In the good old days all computer OSes were

Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-31 Thread David Green
On 2008-Jan-31, at 2:38 am, Mark Overmeer wrote: * David Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080131 08:48]: I've always wanted a magic-S (and I don't think the anglocentrism matters In the good old days all computer OSes were anglo-centric. They are not like that anymore. But Perl still is.