Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

Jonathan Stowe jns at integration-house.com
Thu Oct 9 15:29:04 BST 2008


2008/10/9 Iain Barnett <iainspeed at gmail.com>:
> 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

I can only conclude that you are replying to a different message.

/J\


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