[Phoenix-pm] replacement of $

Jerry Davis jdawgaz at cox.net
Mon Apr 3 18:25:48 PDT 2006


On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:54:02 -0500
"Metz, Bobby W, WCS" <bwmetz at att.com> wrote:

> He's joking right?

look at the time April 1st - April Fools!

anyway Larry knows that this would break 100% of the scripts out there,
so it wouldn't be done no matter what.

> 
> -----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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