From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T21:56:02+09:00
Subject: Re: make local var visible

Pe�a, Botp wrote:
> William James [mailto:w_a_x_man@yahoo.com] wrote:
>
> #You say that you are converting Perl code, which is usually full of
> #$'s and @'s, so this probably looks no worse than what you would
> #have converted it from:
> #
> #$x=1
> #
> #def mx1
> #   p $x
> #end
> #
> #mx1
> #p $x
> #
> #def mx2
> #   $x = 2
> #   p $x
> #end
> #
> #mx2
> #p $x
> #
> #
>
> not worse, but bad nonetheless.

Better, I would say. Most lines in a Perl program end with ";".
It's good to get rid of that.


> And the dollars look like snakes
> too.

If $$$ looks like snakes, then SSSsss looks like snakes and
baby snakes.

I wonder if it is wise to demand a change to the language because
we don't like the look of a certain character.