Re: substr/array_slice in []
| From: | Marcus Boerger | Date: | Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:20:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: substr/array_slice in [] | ||
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Hello Antony,
Saturday, October 6, 2007, 8:49:14 PM, you wrote:
> On 06.10.2007 22:38, Larry Garfield wrote:
>> I have no love for Perl (and a rather strong dislike of it), but I have to
>> agree with those who say that "looks like Perl" is a lame reason to reject
>> something. PHP's object system looks an awful lot like Java, too. That
>> doesn't make it bad.
>>
>> "Too unreadable", "not approachable enough", "too
>> inflexible", etc. are
>> perfectly valid reasons to reject a syntax. "Looks like <insert language
>> here>" is not, I content, one of them.
> I believe it should be pretty clear that "too perlish" means "too cryptic
> and makes no sense because it duplicates already implemented functionality
> (more than one way to do it, yeah)".
> But "too perlish" is much shorter.
Right, it is a term we somehow agreed on without ever saying so.
Best regards,
Marcus