Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

[Iain Barnett]

On 9 Oct 2008, at 2:36 pm, Jonathan Stowe wrote:

> 2008/10/9 Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>:
>> Jonathan Stowe wrote:
>>>
>>> 2008/10/9 Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net>:
>>>>
>>>> On 9 Oct 2008, at 01:39, Iain Barnett wrote:
>>>
>>>>> if a in b               #this is even better IMO
>>>
>>> I think this is the previous without *any* "funny characters".  
>>> Y'know
>>> like python or cobol or C
>>>
>>
>> One presumes that this sort of thing:-
>>
>> my @l;
>>
>> foreach my $l (@l) {
>>   ...
>> }
>>
>> is now (even more) deprecated by the perl thought police?
>>
>
> Nah, it's not the "perl thought police" you have to worry about with
> that one - it's the radical functional programming fifth columnists
> posing as otherwise respectable members of the perl community ...
>
> /J\

Is that a double invocation of Godwin's Law by stealth?

It was, of course, in "1984" that the fascist government controlled  
people though making the language smaller and resisting changes. That  
makes the "in"-crowd proles, not 5th columnists. Unless you're a  
fascist[1] :D

Iain

[1] non-stealth Godwin invocation