Re (tilly) 1: Perl Kenning #1

Is this even easier example the kind of thing you mean?

Makes errors explicit,
Would have missed it;
Programmer's friend,
In the end;

Spoiler below.

Why strict, of course!

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Re: Re (tilly) 1: Perl Kenning #1 by earthboundmisfit (Chaplain) on Jan 10, 2002 at 22:56 UTC
Yes. That's pretty good. There is a nominalistic vein in all of Anglo Saxon poetry, thus the naming of a thing becomes very important. So your first couplet might become something like, "Typo killer for the dope/ Bane of vars out of scope" ------- Glad is the heart that beats not for itself alone	[reply]