On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:57:12PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Oct 2, Casey West said:
> 
> >Patch to make code use strict where appropriate and be generally
> >pleasing to the eye, and easy to understand.
> 
> I'm against using $a in the code examples, especially since your patch
> then makes it my($a), which will cause problems later on if sorting is
> involved.
> 
> Or perhaps I shouldn't be going so far?

I think so.  The poor innocent $a shouldn't be punished because of
the sins of sort().

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