>Scalars, hashes, arrays. There's actually more than one type of plural here, >gramatically: > scalars hashes arrays > singular dual plural >(Or am I the only one left who did Ancient Greek? :) Nope: pudge and larry, at least. >> (and don't say, "because plural *means* more than one" :-). If having a >> filehandle character would make the code clearer, then let's do it. >If it would, yes. I'm not convinced that it would. But I do concede that >people see filehandles as something conceptually different from an "ordinary" >scalar. What about regexes? $foo = qr/blech/; Should that be /foo instead? :-) Notice how even objects use $, not something else. --tom
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Ted Ashton
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Bart Lateur
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Ted Ashton
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Nathan Torkington
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Peter Scott
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Nick Ing-Simmons
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-definin... Piers Cawley
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining pun... Simon Cozens
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-definin... Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Ted Ashton
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Peter Scott
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Larry Wall
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... John Porter
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-def... Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Steve Simmons