Aaron Sherman wrote: > As a side note, I'd like to suggest that "English" is just rubbing > people's noses in the fact that they're not allowed to program in their > native tongue. "Names" might be less in-your-face.
Why are we even having to say use English or Names or whatever? Why not just make it a part of the core alongside the original short special var names? In my opinion the short version of special vars is one of the worst features of Perl, despite the fact that I like concise code. But then again, I'm not a golfer. Marcus Adair