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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Perl Bugs and Comments
Message-ID: <7454@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 88 02:23:27 GMT
References: <69600002@sushi> <1418@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.bugs
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1418@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by lwall@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
+---------------
| : 7) I've had trouble with the array/scalar notation, as well as not
| :    always being certain whether to use a $ or @ at all.  I've always 
| 
| The thing I find interesting is that nobody has EVER complained about my
| forcing them to put $ or @ on the front of every variable in sight, when awk
+---------------

I didn't complain because I use Accell at work; in Accell/Language, you can
precede variables by $ and thus guard against their being treated as keywords
by a later version.  Makes sense to me, and I wish it were a little more
common.
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	      Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc
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