From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T01:56:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Adventures in html decoding.

William James wrote:
> ARGF is no more esoteric than ARGV, [...]

I disagree. ARGV is familiar to anyone who's ever written C, C++, 
Objective-C, Java, Perl, AWK, Python, Scheme, ...

ARGF is not. I'd never heard of it until this thread.

Compare the number of references to ARGV and ARGF in the pickaxe book 
too: ARGF is only mentioned three times in the entire book according to 
the index. One of those is in a grey "you can skip this" section talking 
about Perlisms, the second is under a big "ARGC" heading where it's 
mentioned in passing, and the real discussion isn't until page 336.


mathew
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