On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Charles Daminato wrote: > It's arguable that this is a reason why people dislike perl soooo > much. There's a lot to be said for consistency and predictability (as > with any language - dang Enlish with it's "exceptions")
Given that Perl was designed to fit well with humans and to act like a normal human language on the cultural level as well, it's not too surprising that it has such "exceptions". Some people hate English too, but English still seems pretty popular for getting the job done. To keep the serious programmers happy, there's always use strict and -w. The equivalent for English is to carry around your grammer school teacher, but that can cause serious portability problems. :) And remember ... a correct Perl program is one that gets the job done before you get fired. Semicolons schmemycolons. -- </chris> "Perl was written first of all to let the Artist make amoral decisions." - Larry Wall
