>>>>> "SP" == Stéphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SP> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:56:06AM +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote: >> >> Giving scoping functions the status of list operators >> would allow to drop parentheses when not used in conjunction >> with initializer so one could write: >> >> my $a, $b, $c; >> >> instead of >> >> my ($a, $b, $c); SP> Too bad that in English there is no plural for my. SP> In French it would work fine SP> mon $a; # French for C<my>, singular SP> # C<mes> as a list operator SP> mes $a, $b, $c; # French for C<my>, plural well, our is a form of a plural my but it is not a plural of the things that are mine/ours but rather the group owning it (which is the namespace). so we can try: all, mine, these, those, them and the brooklynese variants: dese, dose, dem. :) southern variant: y'all or yall. maybe yall is expanded as yall mine! yall $a, $b, $c = 1 .. 3 ; larry? uri PS if this gets in, i will stop being so bigoted against southern accents! :) -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
