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Tom Lane asked:
> Please, tell me that isn't so. $a is a reserved name now? What was
> Larry thinking?
It's not that bad, really. $a and $b have special meaning inside of
a sort subroutine as the two items being compared. Thus, you can write
so
"Greg Sabino Mullane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Using $a and $b for temporary vars are bad form for our example,
> as they have special meaning in Perl.
Please, tell me that isn't so. $a is a reserved name now? What was
Larry thinking?
regards, tom lane
Patch applied, thanks. I actually told somebody off roundly about this
not long ago.
cheers
andrew
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
Using $a and $b for temporary vars are bad form for our example,
as they have special meaning in Perl.
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Using $a and $b for temporary vars are bad form for our example,
as they have special meaning in Perl.
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RCS f
[Please CC any replies, thanks]
NOTE: I am not requesting that this patch is integrated, only that it
exists in the archive in case future problems emerge requiring it. It's
essentially something that only works for Linux and select other OSes
and the bug it fixes is somewhat outside the scope of