Re: replacement of $

2006-04-01 Thread Yuval Kogman
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 ;-) If you guys would have participated in the keysigning parties... -- Yuval Kogman <[

Re: replacement of $

2006-04-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 03:42:11PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: : 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. For those o

Re: replacement of $

2006-04-01 Thread Larry Wall
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

Re: replacement of $

2006-04-01 Thread Darren Duncan
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 (¤).

replacement of $

2006-04-01 Thread Larry Wall
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 requir