On 4/24/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to reset to before the key for some reason, you can always
> set .pos to $<KEY>.beg, or whatever the name of the method is. Hmm,
> that looks like it's unspecced.
>
BEGIN
.beg looks over-huffmanized to me. .begin is more natural to
english-speaking programmers, who have been using begin and end for
decades. if .beg will be used as .end's pair, i suggest this be kept
consistent, and BEGIN{} blocks be renamed as well.
BEGging the compiler to execute a block first is a mnemonic device,
but it doesn't work with the first example.
END
~jerry
