As mentioned in my documentation:

Of course, if I write "use WORD NUMBER;" such that NUMBER is equal to the number of letters in WORD added to the position in the alphabet of the first letter of WORD, then that indicates sarcasm.

It is a very powerful mechanism for specifying things. I can extend the list of potential meanings nearly without end. Did you not find that method of declaration intuitive? I suppose I should update the documentation with the mnemonic for each potential meaning, as not everybody will immediately realize all of them. I've found such to often be extremely useful in the Perl documentation.

Oh, it looks like the documentation you referenced also failed to mention the mnemonic device for remembering the ">= 5.12 means 'use strict'" bit. It would be good to document it, even though, as I previously noted, I thought it was obvious.

- tye        

It was also an allusion to a joke I once enjoyed with the punchline of "Timing".

In reply to Re^5: HTTP Requests and Threading (use joke 14;) by tye
in thread HTTP Requests and Threading by carlriz

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