On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:13:00AM -0400, Chas Owens wrote: > > By the way, $a and $b are special varaibles used by the sort function > and therefore do not need to be declared with "my", but it is bad form > to use them for anything but the sort function. For short examples it > is best to use $x, $y, and $z or $i, $j, and $k.
. . . or $foo, $bar, $baz, and $qux. When you start with foo, pretty much everyone immediately knows you're using metasyntactic variables for demonstration purposes. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] This sig for rent: a Signify v1.14 production from http://www.debian.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
