Paul Kraus said:
> Wow. I find that unusual in my 10 years of computer use/programming ...
> I have always referred to $ and heard it referred to as "string".
>
> Not that it matters but I find that definitely unusual :)
Do you have a background in BASIC? I think that in the UK at least it is
(was ?) common to refer to the $ in A$, for example, as "string" since
that is what it was, and it obviously had nothing to do with dollars.
But as far as Perl is concerned it is "dollar", and I am not aware of any
exceptions.
Now, as to whether $! is dollar-bang, dollar-pling,
dollar-exclamation-mark or anything else is not so easy.
You might find this link interesting:
http://www.eeng.brad.ac.uk/help/.faq/.unix/.pronun.html
But people, # is not a pound! ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: pronunciation guide
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>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kraus) writes:
>>Not sure how to help you I do not that it is not very common to refer
>>to $ as dollar unless your talking about dollars. Generally when
>>dealing with computers it is a representation of the word string and is
>
>>spoken as such.
>>
>>String-underscore.
>
> I've never heard that. I've been to dozens of meetings and conferences,
> heard thousands of people talking about Perl, and never before have I
> heard $_ referred to as anything other than "dollar underscore" or
> occasionally "dollar underbar".
>
> Strings are a small subset of possible values for scalars. If $ were
> mnemonic for anything, it would be "scalar", not "string".
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