[Phoenix-pm] replacement of $

Metz, Bobby W, WCS bwmetz at att.com
Mon Apr 3 09:54:02 PDT 2006


He's joking right?

-----Original Message-----
From: phoenix-pm-bounces+bwmetz=att.com at pm.org
[mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces+bwmetz=att.com at pm.org]On Behalf Of Scott
Walters
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 6:14 PM
To: phoenix-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] replacement of $


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 (a'?).
> 
> So, spread the word, Perl 6 will require you to replace all the $ in
your 
> scripts with a'?. That's just a regex after all...
> 
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