On 14 Sep 2000, at 14:18, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Before you balk at #1 in favor of religious flexibility, please consider
> how unmaintainable Perl code would be if @ARGV, or $AUTOLOAD, or STDERR,
> or @INC, or chomp(), or split(), or any other widely-used variable or
> function was renameable. If you don't shudder at this, I would argue you
> probably don't maintain enough of others' code.
*ANNOYNATE = *ARGV;
use English;
I remember reading a bit of example code somewhere from someone
who religiously used English. It was fairly annoying seeing functions
operate on $ARG instead of $_, and subroutine were passed @ARG....
Cheers,
Philip
