WebDragon | y'all should spell it in uppercase it being an acronym and all |
reaction | Yes, but we're *lazy*! |
* WebDragon | *so* noticed ;) |
dkr | WebDragon: people that use CamelCase have no right to criticize about capitalization. :) |
WebDragon | dkr: I hate underscores |
* dkr | contemplates a source code filter that does lets you use spaces in var names by switch them to underscores at compile time |
preaction | black magic |
mst | dkr: source filters are evil. |
mst | dkr: in a bad way. |
mst | dkr: hacking the compiler is much more fun, and evil in a useful way :) |
mst | WebDragon: recommended perl style is $var_name |
mst | WebDragon: it's also more readable than $varName or $VarName |
mst | WebDragon: I'd recommend trying it for at least a month |
mst | WebDragon: also note that it'll make life easier because you'll be consistent with the rest of perl code |
WebDragon | mst: I was thinking more along the lines of filenames and irc nicknames than perl variables |
mst | WebDragon: ah. fair enough :) |
* WebDragon | doesn't use CamelCase for perl variables |
mst | WebDragon: then I shall cease complaining :) |
avar | ${"Insert a descriptive essay about the variable here"} |
WebDragon | rofl |
rindolf | avar: that won't work with 'use strict 'refs'' |
WebDragon | avar: I've seen things like that in real life and had recurring nightmares about them when I saw similar and sometimes worse things on thedailywtf.com |
mst | rindolf: ${main::}{"Insert a descriptive essay about the variable here"} would :) |
mst | rindolf: or you could just use %_ :) |
dkr | my boss still occasionally uses vars like $x. still trying to beat that behavior out of him |
* WebDragon | only uses x|y|z for Cartesian coordinate math |
WebDragon | which, since I hardly ever do any of that, means the obvious |