Re^2: How is it that I can see this package variable from another package without fully-qualifying its name?

Arg! Can't believe I did that. I get it right almost all of the time, but sometimes it still manages to trick me: "Joe's bar and grill, Larry's language, it's scope ... {sigh}"

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Tricks for remembering English rules by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Apr 25, 2011 at 04:56 UTC
If you logged in rather than posting as Anonymous, you could edit it and fix it after you see it. That bugs me more than the mistake itself; the fact that it's cast in stone forever now. So, how about signing up and getting your own user name? "Joe's bar and grill, Larry's language, it's scope ... {sigh} Because you are mixing proper nouns and pronouns. A better way to remember is Hi's bar a grill, he'r language, it's scope... er, huh? His/her/its form a set.	[reply]
Re: Tricks for remembering English rules by LanX (Saint) on Apr 25, 2011 at 09:51 UTC
you wrote meaning "which of several possible patterns to I encounter first?" in Global %+ woes. I'm not a native speaker but I think you meant `s/to/do/`. Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Tricks for remembering English rules by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 25, 2011 at 06:21 UTC
the fact that it's cast in stone forever now. Huh? This software. Electronic bits and bytes. And there are janitors (not to mention gods). I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]
Re: Tricks for remembering English rules by ww (Archbishop) on Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37 UTC
Even stone is not forever. Erosion, subduction, solar evolution, heat death of the universe.	[reply]