Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Patches to avoid reporting conversion changes.

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"Jari" == Jari Aalto [off-list ref] writes:

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Right, but without looking, is it $OS_ERROR or $OSERROR?

Jari> I don't see any difference, because that variable is always within the
Jari> close context of previous statements. The reader would consult the lines
Jari> above.

Yes, once it's already *in* the program.  But I bet you had to *look
them up* to add them.

And if you weren't familiar with Perl, you'd still have to *look them
up* to get the punctuation variables.

You're just trading one problem for another.

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Heya,

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 21:34, Randal L. Schwartz [off-list ref] wrote:

Yes, once it's already *in* the program.  But I bet you had to *look
them up* to add them.

Yes, but once they're there nobody has to look them up. It's moving
the problem from having to look up what it means on _and_ write, to
just write.

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Sverre Rabbelier

Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 21:34, Randal L. Schwartz [off-list ref] wrote:

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Yes, once it's already *in* the program.  But I bet you had to *look
them up* to add them.

Yes, but once they're there nobody has to look them up. It's moving
the problem from having to look up what it means on _and_ write, to
just write.

We use idiomatic C, e.g.

  if (!strcmp(option, "warn")) {

not

  if (strcmp(option, "warn") == 0) {


We use idiomatic Perl, e.g.

  %hash = map { $_ => 1 } @list;

not

  use English qw(-no_match_vars);

  %hash = map { $ARG => 1 } @list;

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Heya,

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 00:32, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

We use idiomatic C, e.g.

Agreed.

We use idiomatic Perl, e.g.

Ah, I thought that the discussion was about whether the "$_" syntax
was idiomatic or not. It got the impression that the "$ARG etc. is a
failed experiment" was Randal's personal opinion, but if that's how
the perl community has decided that things should be done than that's
of course how we should do it :).

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Sverre Rabbelier