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- From: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: actually mnemonic special variable names
- Message-ID: <MERLYN.92Dec27204441@romulus.reed.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 04:44:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: romulus.MERLYN.92Dec27204441
- References: <1hdngpINN216@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
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- In-Reply-To: eric.arnold@sun.com's message of 25 Dec 92 01:18:17 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <1hdngpINN216@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, eric.arnold@sun.com (eric ) writes:
- eric> Has anyone already written something that aliases all those special
- eric> variables (Camel book: "You can say one thing for them -- they're
- eric> certainly concise.").
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- Larry has talked about having a package that has all of the built-in
- variables, like $SYSTEM'FIRST_ELEMENT, or something like that.
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- I suspect that's lower in priority than getting Perl 5.0 out the door,
- though. :-)
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- print "Just another Perl hacker," # and newly converted ski bum... sigh!
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