John Porter wrote:
> Glenn Linderman wrote:
> >
> > Agreed, but neither should perl implement features which make it hard for the
> > programmer to stick to that advice.
>
> That sounds reasonable, on first take, but actually I think that
> goes against the grain of perl's philosophy, which is to
Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
> Agreed, but neither should perl implement features which make it hard for the
> programmer to stick to that advice.
That sounds reasonable, on first take, but actually I think that
goes against the grain of perl's philosophy, which is to let the
programmer do what she
John Porter wrote:
> Glenn Linderman wrote:
> > Stick with characters in the normal character set of the author of the
> > script, except for forays into the language of the users of the script.
>
> Good advice for the programmer, perhaps; but it should not be perl's
> job to enforce that discipl
Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Stick with characters in the normal character set of the author of the
> script, except for forays into the language of the users of the script.
Good advice for the programmer, perhaps; but it should not be perl's
job to enforce that discipline.
--
John Porter
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A perl script is probably written in a particular language, probably for
users of that language, possibly for users of a second language. Unless
there are lots of I18N type features added into Perl to allow extracting
all string constants fr
