On Dec 13, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said: >On Dec 13, Jeremy Zawodny said: > >>Think back to when you were first learning Perl. Or regular >>expressions. They're documented but you still find yourself thinking >>"damn, this is obscure..." Are you wrong? > >New experiences often seem obscure. I don't think a person LEARNING the >language can safely deem something obscure. They might not understand it, >nor its purpose, but that doesn't make it so. Unless obscurity is more >subjective than I tend to think it is. > >I think > > push me, away; > each to_his_own; > >is obscure. I don't think $[ tricks are obscure. But that's me.
I'd probably include capitalized operators in the obscure group, along with using alphanumerics as quoting characters, or using qq'' or q"". -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
