From: ChrisO <ceo@...>
Date: 2004-09-15T13:24:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Automatically setting attributes

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 1:10:00 PM, Assaph wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>>>>Do those methods have any advantages over doing @goo, @moo = 0, 0
>>>>
>>>>You only write one zero... :-)
>>>
>>>@goo = @moo = 0   # :-)
> 
> 
>><sledge>
>>I SO much prefer the TMTOWTDI philosophy than the other,
>>straight-jackety, feeling you get from some P languages :->
>></sledge>
> 
> 
> dictionary.com doesn't know about this meaning of "sledge", which is a
> slang word (probably Australian, but understood by all nations that
> play cricket) meaning agressive chatter in a sporting context, with
> the intention to gain a psychological advantage.
> 
> Just clearing that up for our international audience.
> 

American's talk "smack" or "trash" -- which works well for those of us 
that use development languages with automatic GC.  We need that.

Personally, I think we've spread more than our fair share of it around 
the globe, but my initials aren't "GWB," so there's little I can do 
about it but place my opinion in Usenet and watch get archived to a 
Google hard drive somewhere.

-ceo