Re: Expunge "use English" from Perl? (was Re: Perl6Storm: Intent to RFC #0101)

[Robert Mathews]

Adam Turoff wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:39:32PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> >
> > My personal feeling is that I'd love "use English" to be expunged from
> > the language altogether - it's unnecessary bloat that only increases the
> > number of mistakes that people can make. But I'm not sure if I have the
> > guts to write that RFC just yet. ;-)
> 
> Are you talking about the overlong variable names?
> 
> Aliasing -X is being proposed through a 'use english;' mechanism.

It's a good thing we've got Larry Wall to untie the Gordian knot of
perl6.  One rfc to add more english, one to take it away.

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Robert Mathews
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