--- Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:46:43AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: > > Obviously, values are pure and therefrom spring "virtues," while > > objects are but vile clay -- fallible constructs of a sinful man, > > pathetically trying to recreate an envisioned ideal. Ergo, they > have > > naught but "vices." > > > > Can I get an "Amen," brothers and sisters? > > I'm not sure. I thought about vices, but I can remember that Larry > doesn't > like the idea of a "curse" function to un-bless things, so I suspect > that "vices" aren't going to see much favour. "flaws", maybe. There's > always scope for redeeming your flaws. :-) > > Nicholas Clark
Of course not. The opposite of bless in this case would be "excommunicate." Can we replace croak and carp with "damn" and "darn"? Can I say: CATCH { when mortal { ... } when venal { ... } } I think that having "begone" and "exorcise" as keywords would probably rock. Plus, we could write "Perl Catechism"(*). How cool would that be? (I'm going to "heck" for this, I'm sure. :-) :-) :-) =Austin (*) That title is MINE.