It might be due to me not being a native english speaker that I can't grasp what's the problem with 'unless'. So I looked up the term and... aha: 'unless' translates to 'if not' and 'except if'. Is that the root of the problem? Thinking 'unless' as 'except if' and dropping the 'except'?

You must not use emotionally charged words like "daemonize" to mischaracterize my educating people about my experiences and attempting to explain my best practices.

You're right, I must not use the word 'daemonize' when I mean 'deprecate'. But you may be wrong in thinking that your experiences serve other people to educate themselves, if you don't expose these experiences. I would highly appreciate some pointers to how people got hit by using 'unless', some 'real code' examples showing the whole process of tripping into the trap, getting hurt, licking wounds and healing towards using 'if not'. Surely those examples would give an insight into yet another weird corner of english thinking (you can't learn a language properly if you don't give in to think in that language). As I already stated, 'unless' for me is nothing but 'if not', and if the keyword in perl wasn't 'unless' but 'nif', it would be the same for me.

I forbid you take this so seriously, henceforth. q-:

I hardly do so ever, honest. But sometimes I indulge in grave sounding. *sigh* that discussion about 'to unless or not to unless' is going some time now, and I see neither an end nor any benefit coming from it.

cheers,
--shmem

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