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How do I pronounce $var? Or $_? I

I pronounce $ as "dollar", or as "string". The latter is because I used to code in BASIC, where a dollar sign suffix denotes a string variable - I try to avoid that habit, but sometimes I fall back. Sometimes I just say "variable" instead of "dollar" (just to avoid confusion, I don't say scalar).

_ is "underscore", but sometimes I call $_ "default", instead of "dollar underscore".

These may be (probably are) wrong, but this is what I'm used to: 

=   is
==  equals
eq  equals (or "e q")
~   tilde
$   dollar, variable
^   caret (but <tt>$^W</tt> --> "variable control W")
@   at, array
%   hash
_   underscore
$_  default
@_  default array
{[( opening (or "left") curly, bracket, paren
}[( closing (or "right") curly, bracket, paren
:   colon
;   semicolon, stop
/   slash
\   backslash, escape
\n  newline (not "escape n")
\w  word
\s  whitespace
`   backtick
<>  glob, readline ("diamond" if without handle), tag (depending on co
+ntext)
<   less-than-sign, opening (left) angle
>   greater-than-sign, closing (right)angle
&   ampersand, and
&&  and (or "and and" to avoid confusion, "short and")
|   pipe, or
||  or (or "or or", "pipe pipe", "short or")
'   single quote
"   double quote
*   asterisk, times
--  decrease
++  increase
#   pound, comment, remark (not "hash" because of % :)

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I leave out parens and curlies where they're not optional. I often say "end of $control_structure" instead of "closing curly"
So this: 
while (<>) {
   s/\r/blah/;
   print $_ || "Empty\n";
}

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becomes: 
while diamond,
s slash carriage return slash blah slash, stop, 
print default, short or,
double quote titlecase empty, newline, double quote, stop.
end of while.

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Then again, my English is disastrous at best, so I don't think you should rely on this :) 

U28geW91IGNhbiBhbGwgcm90MTMgY
W5kIHBhY2soKS4gQnV0IGRvIHlvdS
ByZWNvZ25pc2UgQmFzZTY0IHdoZW4
geW91IHNlZSBpdD8gIC0tIEp1ZXJk

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Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff
by Biker (Priest) on Apr 10, 2002 at 18:40 UTC

    "I leave out parens and curlies where they're not optional."

    Are you sure? (Sorry Juerd, I just couldn't resist. ;-)

    Everything went worng, just as foreseen.

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      I think he meant it the way he said, as 'while (<>)' was pronounced as 'while diamond'? He knows the parens are needed, the Perl-knowledgable listener knows the parens are needed, so in a spoken context they're little more than line noise.

      Vocal line noise. Now there's a scary thought.

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Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff
by robot_tourist (Hermit) on Apr 11, 2002 at 07:15 UTC
    #   pound, comment, remark (not "hash" because of % :)

    The # character should never be pronounced pound. I accept square sign, but £ means pound because it is simply a fancy L, which is short for the latin libra meaning pound. YAA (Yet Another Americanisation ;) ) that came about this time from the difference between UK and US keyboards.

    I have a wiry brain/each eye a camera. Robot Tourist, by Ten Benson

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      # is obviously "sharp". That's how we get "sh-bang" (#!) to start every program!

      - Richie

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        # is obviously "sharp". That's how we get "sh-bang" (#!) to start every program!

        I thought that was "hash bang", but "sharp bang" sounds more logical.

        This is a culture shock, getting used to "sharp" will take a while. 

        Yes, I reinvent wheels.

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      That's a pretty specious argument.

      In any event the name of # is of great debate. There are many terms (most listed in the two links I provided earlier (higher up, below.)

    • The Useless Pages used to have an entire section dedicated to this, I cannot find it now
    • Octothorpe
    • Despite the actual definition I had heard Sesquipedalian as a contender
    • Interesting observation
      • If - is a bithorpe and # is an octothorpe, why isn't * a hexathorpe? And if - is a bithorpe and = is a quadrathorpe, what's +? And furthermore, what's a thorpe?

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

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      The # character should never be pronounced pound.

      #perl (irc channel) is often refered to as "pound perl", and I tend to use "remark" when talking about code. When not in Perl context, I use "hash" for it, but that's far to confusing when talking about Perl code :). 

      Yes, I reinvent wheels.

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