Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 19:18 +0100, Iain Barnett wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2008, at 3:29 pm, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> 
> 
> I can only conclude your fibbing, unless you don't understand the  
> link between "thought police", naziism, 5th columnists, paranoia, the  
> control of language, and the dislike of challenging ideas.
> 

So I am either lying or I am stupid? And you were querying the tone of
discourse around here.

I think you might want to consult the archive of the list to discover
the rules of this list.

/J\