At 01:07 AM 10/19/00 -0500, J. David Blackstone wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> >> Rename the local operator? Yeah, I think we ought to do that. It
> >> confuses people when we call it local(). The problem is, of course,
> >> that this is not a perfect solution--they haven't come up with the
> >> right name here: savetmp, tmpsave, scratchpad, etc.
> >
> > You're learning Japanese, right? It's gotta be "toriaezu".[1] :)
> >
> > [1] 'For the time being', roughly speaking.
>
>Do we need to add a book on Japanese to the reading list? Seems like
>I'm the only one here who doesn't speak it.
You're not the only one. (Though it is on my todo list... :)
>[And now they're keeping the newbies locked out by doing all
>development work in Japanese.]
Nah. Only those newbies that don't speak Japanese. If we wanted to keep the
newbies out we'd write perl 6 in INTERCAL. :-P
Dan
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