On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 01:43:44AM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> : The worst thing I had problems with in Perl was folks telling it
> : was "Lexiconical".  What?  I wish they would have also said "which
> : means Perl figures out your variables type on the fly, so you don't
> : have to type cast everything".
>
> Just so that nobody overgeneralizes this into a general Perl meme, let
> me point out that to the best of my recollection (which ain't as good
> as it used to was), I've never heard the term "lexiconical" used that
> way (or any way, really), and I'd be completely weirded out if someone
> used it that way, since dynamic typing (figuring out types on the fly)
> has almost nothing to do with either lexicons or lexical scoping.
>

I've heard it, and considered it someone being too clever for their own
good. Or anyone else's.

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