Re: what I meant about hungarian notation

[Eric Roode]

[on David Nicol's thought that maybe references should be treated
differently than other scalar data]
>
>But $, @, and % indicate data organization, not type...
>

Perhaps it's a mistake that Perl treats numbers and strings the
same. Perhaps "$" should be broken out into two prefixes: S for
strings, and | for numbers. Use $ when it's unknown what type
a variable will hold, or for a variable that can hold either type.

    Sfoo = 'a string';
    |bar = 'a number';
    $baz = Sfoo || |bar;

And references are right out.


;-)
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 Eric J. Roode                                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Senior Software Engineer, Myxa Corporation