[Phoenix-pm] replacement of $

Scott Walters scott at illogics.org
Sat Apr 1 17:13:31 PST 2006


That mutt 'bounce' key is dangerous.  Meant to forward this to the list,
not make it look like Larry actually joined the list, or wosre, look
like I was spoofing Larry's email.  Anyway, this appeared on the 
p6p list this morning.  Enjoy!

-scott


On  0, Larry Wall <larry at wall.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Recently I had time to think about the $ symbol we use in Perl.
> 
> I think Perl has been using the USD symbol for too long, and I'm now sure
> that it's time to replace it. After some research I came to the conclusion 
> that the best fit is the euro symbol (€).
> 
> So, spread the word, Perl 6 will require you to replace all the $ in your 
> scripts with €. That's just a regex after all...
> 
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