Re^3: Do not understand code

I'm worried that this talk of translating $_ into English is neglecting the all-important needs of the Perl poet, specifically the crucial Perl haiku (5-7-5) syllable count, where traditionally $_ is pronounced as "it" and @_ as "them", as in chipmunk's winning TPC 4 poem (where his subroutine summer is both a "sum-er" and a season):

sub summer { my $sum;
$sum += $_ for @_;
$sum } print summer (split);
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and is pronounced (5-7-5) like so:

sub sum-mer my sum
sum plus equ-als "it" for "them"
sum print sum-mer split

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Re^4: Do not understand code by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 03, 2017 at 15:53 UTC
the crucial Perl haiku (5-7-5) syllable count Far from crucial, the 5-7-5 syllable count is unnecessary. The idea that it's central to the definition of haiku is bogus. Pure myth. I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]