From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T09:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Adventures in html decoding.

Hi --

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, mathew wrote:

> 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.

You make it sound like learning something from a ruby-talk thread is
bad :-)

> 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.

That doesn't mean it's esoteric.  It just means it's discussed on page
336.  Something has to be :-)


David

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