Phoenix.pm: quoting constant hash keys survey

Anthony Nemmer intertwingled at qwest.net
Tue Apr 20 11:01:52 CDT 2004


No.  Everyone should learn to speak ENGLISH.  Then we can use seven bit 
ASCII.

At least, that is My Humble Opinion.

Anthony Nemmer

Bill Lindley wrote:

> Hey, let's totally use Unicode -- If «these_puppies» aren't cool 
> enough, then for starters, next we can replace the division operator, 
> and have subroutines become sections.  Forget underlines, string 
> concatenation becomes dot (·) :
>
> ---begin---
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> §compute_profit {
>    my ($name, $profit, $member_count) = @_;
>    my $share = $profit ÷ $member_count;
>    return $name · "receives " · $share;
> }
> ---end---
>
> Repeat and fade.  In fact let's call this new language "APL" instead 
> of Perl 6... and switch to these keyboards:
>
>   http://www.hypermaths.org/quadibloc/comp/images/typair.gif
>
> \\/
>
>
>


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