Hello Sawyer,
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:38:56 +0200
sawyer x <xsawy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow this has turned into a monster thread... ouch.
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote:
> > The problem is that using my $a and my $b will prevent the built-in $a and
> > $b
> > from being used and as a result is a bad idea. We should make sure that
> > synopses and other code excerpts in the documentation of Perl modules
> > reflect
> > the Perl best practices, because less clueful people may be tempted to
> > duplicate
> > them in their own code. And then they go to online forums and ask us why
> > their
> > code is broken.
> >
> > So the lexical "$a" and "$b" here should be replaced with something less
> > dangerous.
> >
>
> I'm convinced.
> I would like to retract my disrespectful poor-taste comment I made earlier.
> And no, I'm not being cynical. :)
>
Well, I'm glad we agree now, and I should note that your comment wasn't that
bad. You've also raised some points which made me clarify why I think so in
this thread's case.
>
> > > We honestly don't have to comment on *everything* people say and do.
> > > (and I probably shouldn't have commented on what you said either, so
> > > apologies for that)
> > >
> >
> > Well, I hope I didn't also make the same mistake (again).
> >
>
> Not in my opinion.
>
> Thanks for correcting me. :)
> s.
:-).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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