On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:40:40AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> "returns" is synonymous with "of", mostly so we can use "returns" on
> subroutines, because "of" sounds weird:
> 
>     my int sub foo () {...}
>     my sub foo () of int { ... }
>     my sub foo () returns int { ... }

I read this and I think

  sub ... () of Borg { }

but I can't work out what ... should be for the best joke. Nevermind. I'll
just blatantly plug the spoofathon. (The Borg are better than perl
because...?)

Nicholas Clark
-- 
INTERCAL better than perl?      http://www.perl.org/advocacy/spoofathon/

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