in reply to Perl is a post-modern aesthetic language

In keeping with the 'Natural language Principles in Perl' article & some of the comments on thread 'People watching' its tempting to regard individual style as being a sort of coding 'accent', traceable to other languages and the coders you've worked with.

I picked up habitual java style capitalizationOfVariableNames from working with java programmers perl scripts for example.

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Re^2: Perl is a post-modern aesthetic language
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 18, 2005 at 15:46 UTC
    I picked up habitual java style capitalizationOfVariableNames from working with java programmers perl scripts for example.
    The proper way to do it is $lpszwMyVariableHelloWorld = "Hello World!";
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      Where does the wide in lpszw come from? Are you utf8ing??

      qq/madams55075.spamtrap.@comcast.net/ =~ s/\.spamtrap\.//;

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        It's equally reasonable to call a perl string wide and narrow -- it will certianly fit 16-bit unicode characters (and even 32-bit unicode characters). OTOH, it's not UTF-16.

        What I want to know is why Hungerians feel the need to mark all their pointers long (far). When is the last time you used a near pointer?

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