Regarding my background: It shouldn't matter here--but as people seem to want to pry into more personal details, be aware that I am not a programmer by trade. I have no real training in it. I took one beginner programming course many years ago--in Pascal. Maybe that's not so far off from your guess of Fortran or Cobol?

My code is organized into separate files. No, the variables are not all declared with "my". In fact, many are declared with "our". Accepting some suggestions posted here on PM, I created a package specifically for sharing my global variables. It works, most of the time, but is inconvenient to maintain and I'm looking for a better solution. Raku appears to be that solution.

For what it is worth, "taint" was so quintessential to good code that Raku has dropped it completely. As it often hindered me as much as it may have helped (I don't know if it ever did accomplish anything in my case), I won't miss it. Raku uses "strict" by default.

Part of refactoring my code with Raku involves trying to put my code into packages. I'm not sure how well I can do it yet, but with named variables I think it should be easier. Folk here seem not to believe me, and think me just a lazy programmer unwilling to learn OOP, but try as I might I cannot understand it. I've tried. I may continue to do so, but I have not understood it in 20 years, so have little hopes that my dreams of one day being enlightened will ever come to fruition. The problem is, until I understand it, I will be unable to code with it--programming without understanding doesn't work out too well. Been there done that.

So downvote my "inexperience," my "laziness," my "closed-mindedness" or however else you wish to characterize it all you like. It's none of those things. Nor is it related to my IQ--which is high. It is simply a disability. I wish not to address it further; suffice it to say, any solutions that will work for me have to work without OOP/abstractions.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^3: Ordering of parameters - Re^9: Converting Unicode by Polyglot
in thread Converting Unicode by BernieC

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