Thus it was written in the epistle of Tom Christiansen,
>
> If we were selecting dubious features to shoot (and I think we are),
> then the fact that $^F and $ are the same is one I'd kill--by zapping
> the latter, too.
I'm afraid I couldn't argue very convincingly against it, though I'd be truly
sad to see them go. After all, that's one of the cool things--no other
language I've ever seen uses the latter at all and, well, it's one of the
things which makes Perl fun. Has having $ and its riends caused trouble
for you?
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the
only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after
century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
-- De Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871)
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