Re^2: Modern Perl: The Book: The Draft

As a native speaker, I just want to remark that I disagree completely with each of your suggestions to rephrase. If I were the author, I would go on to illustrate my meaning in each of these cases and prod you for information on how I could really improve them, based on whatever unstated misunderstanding is actually troubling you.

But I'm not the author; I'm just an enthusiast of expression in such ways as provided by English and Perl. So, my curiosity is piqued: what is more awkward in the third paragraph of the first chapter than "must compare always two elements"?

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Re^3: Modern Perl: The Book: The Draft by hexcoder (Curate) on Jul 05, 2010 at 20:02 UTC
Thanks, that is interesting to hear! If the original phrases are comprehensible, I need to work a bit on my skills... BTW: i just noticed the book is really a moving target, as i cannot find the original text anymore. Anyway, the vanished text under chapter 1, section 'The Default Scalar Variable' described the predeclared variables `$a` and `$b`, and reasoned that `$_` could not be used in `sort()` because `sort()` 'must process the elements of its list two at a time'. This is correct of course (the elements are just not necessarily neighbors), but the wording suggested to me: `sort()` iterates on adjacent elements pairs of its list.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Modern Perl: The Book: The Draft by Anonymous Monk on Jul 06, 2010 at 11:14 UTC
Oh, that does sound like it was confusing. Misunderstandings like this is why more documents need version control!	[reply]