On 10/22/07, Jenda Krynicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > I wonder ... what language does this meaning of the verb "to source" > come from??? I know I've seen the word used like this a few times > alerady, but it still sounds completely off. I mean I could > understand "use", "include", "call", but "source"??? snip
>From the definition* of source: # get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies" # specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report" It is also a verb in Korn Shell and BASH that means to run a file as part of the existing interpreter (instead of spawning a new interpreter): source ~/.db.prod.env also written as . ~/.db.prod.env * http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=source -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
