On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Adam Turoff wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
> > verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like:
> >
> > @foo wa kaite kudasai;
>
> So,
>
> mitsu no @foo wa kaite kudasai; # print $foo[3];
That should probably be something with "@foo no dai-san no youso wo kaite
kudasai"? ("mitsu no @foo" sounds like "the @foo belonging to three", or
maybe "the third @foo" to me.)
> That brings up two questions:
> - what's the ordinal for 'zeroth'
Presumably, dai-rei or dai-zero. (With "zero" being pronounced zeh-ro and
not zee-roh.)
> - are lists 'long-flat-objects' or 'tall-cylindrical-objects'
> or 'short-fat-cylindrical-objects'?
>
> Inquiring gaijin want to know! :-)
;)
Cheers,
Philip
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