I was a Perl Hacker back in college and my first programming language was BASIC where every string variable ended in $. I've never coded php -- but I use php as an example because it's the most pervasive web programming language.
chris On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Matt Martini <matt.mart...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Linowes wrote: > > personally, anything that conjures up the ghosts of PHP is worth avoiding. > But, whatever. Its better than "!" > > > While this thread has probably outlived it's usefulness, the consensus > seems to be that everyone wants to > see the change from '!' to '$' (including me), yet I had to comment that I > think that it is funny that while a few > people cringingly mentioned that it reminds them of PHP syntax, no one > mentioned that this is really a > throwback to perl syntax. Aren't there any ex-perl CGI programmers out > there? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Haml" group. > To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <haml%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en.
