Re^2: Quick easy question: What does $i mean?

It goes back to mathematics, which often uses i, j, k for indexes in summations and arrays, matrices, and such...

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Re^3: Quick easy question: What does $i mean? by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 24, 2005 at 05:55 UTC
Actually it goes back to Fortran where variables starting with the letters i-n (INteger) are integer and (I think all) others are real by default. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]