On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote: > Larry Wall wrote: > >Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases. > > > >Larry > > [ <> for array dimension placeholder ] > That might confuse users of languages that were not > C-syntax-influenced, who think that '*<>*' means "not equal". But > surely old Modula hacks like me are in a minority in the Perl world (and > Pascal programmers would never do Perl, would they? Algol, anybody?) So > maybe I'm the only one who runs the risk of that particular confusion. :-)
What about BASIC? Aren't all the little kids today raised on BASIC? :) --Andrew
