>>>>> "Ricardo" == Ricardo SIGNES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ricardo> Good question. Here are some common pronunciations:
Ricardo> $_ - "it" or "the topic"
Ricardo> foreach (@line) { chomp $_; }; # for each line, chomp it
I've always called that "dollar underscore" in the llama class. It's
important enough that we give it a long name, although it'd be nice
if it were shorter. (Trying to saying "colon colon" repeatedly
in the alpaca class is pretty darn annoying.)
This leads of course to a joke that rootbeer came up with for our closing
slide:
We give the Stonehenge office number, but make it clear that none of us
are ever there, and that we're best reached by email instead. But if you
call the office number (as given in my sig), you'll usualy get a very nice
lady named Bobbie. She's great at her job, but she doesn't know Perl, so
if you start asking her a Perl question, she just pops up her mail client
and types a message to us, trying to transcribe what you're saying. And
then it gets mangled to "jim smith called - something about dollar
underwear". (pause for laughter) So, skip the mangling, just email us
directly.
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