Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff

<>!*''#             waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
^@`$$-              carat at back-tick dollar dollar dash
*!'$_               splat bang tick dollar underscore
%*<>#4              percent splat waka waka number four
&)../               ampersand right-paren dot dot slash
{~|**SYSTEM HALTED  curly bracket tilde pipe splat splat crash
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UPDATE: about the poem, mirror
UPDATE: #
A guide to pronounciation, mirror
The jargon file has an entry as well.

For the record I use

In my BASIC days chr$ was "chr bucks"

For perl I tend to stick to English punctuation names

('$'=>'dollar',
 '@'=>'array'||'ary',
 '%'=>'hash'||'percent',
 '#'=>'hash',
 '!'=>'bang',
 '#!'=>'shebang',
 '&'=>'ampersand',
 '*'=>'star',
 '/'=>'slash',
 '\\'=>'back-slash',
 "'"=>'tick',
 '`'=>'back-tick',
 '"'=>'quote"||'quot', #not usually pronounced
 '~'=>'tilde',         #long E
 '?'=>'question mark,  #hook is cooler but it never occurs to me
 '|'=>'pipe',
 '['=>'left bracket',  #These rarely need
 ']'=>'right bracket',#to be pronounced
 '{'=>'left curly(?: brace)',
 '}'=>'right curly(?: brace)',
 '<'=>'less than'||'waka',
 '>'=>'greater than'||'waka',
 ...  #dot dot dot, in this case however yadda yadda yadda
);
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I read $_[1] as "array underscore sub 1" or worst case simply "at underscore 1".

-- perl -pe "s/\b;([mnst])/'\1/mg"

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Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by mojotoad (Monsignor) on Apr 10, 2002 at 21:45 UTC
belg4mit onomatopoetically offered: <>!''# waka waka bang splat tick tick hash ^@`$$- carat at back-tick dollar dollar dash !'$_ splat bang tick dollar underscore %<>#4 percent splat waka waka number four &)../ ampersand right-paren dot dot slash {~\|SYSTEM HALTED curly bracket tilde pipe splat splat crash [download] Is it just me, or does anyone else envision two kids sitting cross-legged across from one another, clapping their hands, knees, and each others hands as they chant this rhyming incantation? I think this is the basis for a whole new area of Perl poetry! Nice discussion. I do think I might be alone in using the american predilection for calling a dollar a 'buck' in my pronunciations while muttering perl code to myself: `$var`: "buck var" `$_`: "buck bar" etc... Matt Update:* Okay, belg4mit did make a 'bucks' reference. I'm not alone after all! Except perhaps with my reading retention skills. ;-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by petral (Curate) on Apr 11, 2002 at 18:37 UTC
These are fairly standard in copy-editing: $ : "buck" _ : "score" \| : "bar" ? : "hook" & : "et" (it is a ligature of E and t) Think of all the extra milliseconds you'd have in your life if you always said "buck score" instead of "dollar underscore"! -- well microseconds, anyway. On the other hand, I call '#' "scratch", but I don't think anyone else does. Have no idea where I picked it up. p	[reply]
Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by mojotoad (Monsignor) on Apr 16, 2002 at 18:59 UTC
Just imagine the possibilities... Dude, the other day after we & dinner I went to the \| and _'ed with a ?'er for only 20 $ !!!! Except now I seem to have a #'ing problem...like petral I have no idea where I picked it up. <sigh> Heh heh! Matt	[reply]
Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by Juerd (Abbot) on Apr 10, 2002 at 17:54 UTC
'\' `'\\'` [download] And you missed a comma after 'greater than'. U28geW91IGNhbiBhbGwgcm90MTMgY W5kIHBhY2soKS4gQnV0IGRvIHlvdS ByZWNvZ25pc2UgQmFzZTY0IHdoZW4 geW91IHNlZSBpdD8gIC0tIEp1ZXJk	[reply] [d/l]


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