Re^5: why does push not default to $

in reply to Re^4: why does push not default to $_?
in thread why does push not default to $_?

Maybe you think this because your an English speaker, but I know plenty of languages which are far more consistent and orthogonal than English.

Well, I'm not a native English speaker, but Larry Wall certainly is. And if any particular natural language was used to model Perl after, it was English, and not a more consistent and orthogonal language.

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Re^6: why does push not default to $_? by LanX (Saint) on Dec 06, 2008 at 19:29 UTC
look at the specs for perl6, it looks far more consistent than perl5, without loosing perl's "natural" features. Discussing the design decissions is certainly not for vain! Cheers Rolf	[reply]

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