Re^12: Where to find info on low level perl internals names?

'Blob' was the nearest modern, common usage term I could locate to match

You illustrated a lack of knowledge of the definition of glob I was using, so I told you what it was in rough terms. In what universe is it a sane response to find another word with a similar definition I should have let you remain ignorant!!!

your totally inappropriate "amorphous lump" description.

Who are you talking to? I never described them as that.

I defy you to find one modern usage -- outside of a dictionary definition -- of the word 'glob' to mean "amorphous lump".

Easy, I've heard it hundreds of time. On Google, «"glob of"» returns a million results.

Even if you found one, it would still be totally inapproproriate. [sic]

You don't even know what it means, yet you know it's inappropriate? Wow, I knew you were closed minded, but that takes the cake.

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Re^13: Where to find info on low level perl internals names? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 27, 2011 at 01:01 UTC
In what universe is it a sane response to find another word with a similar definition The Universe of Ikegamisms, where you have to try and interpret sentences like "Blob has a very similar meaning to blob, but why would I have been thinking of blob?"(); and make sense of concepts like using an archaic word() for "amorphous lump" to label a concrete, documented, regular data-structure. (Since silently modified. But nothing new about that!) (** A word so archaic, that despite my above average vocabulary, I had never encountered this sense of, until I looked it up.) Done now? With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]
Re^14: Where to find info on low level perl internals names? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 27, 2011 at 01:05 UTC
If BrowserUk has never encountered before a word, it's "not modern", it's archaic. Despite gobbles of evidence of its existence. Couldn't spend one second to look for it? We don't even speak the same dialect, yet you're sure that a word I've heard hundreds of times isn't a word. If Doctor Who is any indication, next you'll say that "toilet" (the fixture) and trunk (of a car) are not words either.	[reply]
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