I'm trying to not second-guess whoever maintains the glossary. And by that message also pointing up the omission.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 2:01 PM The Sidhekin <sidhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> You can never be certain in *any* case. Check if you're not sure what it >> means. Because sometimes languages use some term in a way you don't expect, >> whether because they drew it from some specific discipline (Haskell uses a >> lot of terminilogy from abstract mathematics, for example) or for some >> reason (I've hit a few cases where the language author didn't know the >> actual meaning of some term and used it "oddly" as a result). >> >> https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary >> >> Which doesn't have "pragma" in it, probably because it's not specific to >> Perl. It's been around, and used in this sense, since at least the 1960s >> and probably earlier. >> > > ... but does have "whitespace" and "variable" in it, neither of which is > specific to Perl. :-P > > Isn't the lack of "pragma" there an omission to be corrected? > > Particularly if the term is required for the reading of error messages? > > > Eirik > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
