Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] gitweb: Add a comment explaining the meaning of $/

From: Krzesimir Nowak <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 10:16:14 +0100

On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 12:28 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Martin Langhoff <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Krzesimir Nowak <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 16:11 +0100, Jakub Narębski wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Krzesimir Nowak <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > So future reader will know what does it mean without running "perldoc
> >>> > perlvar".
> >>>
> >>> Hmmm... shouldn't future reader know it anyway?  It is not that cryptic.
> >>> I'd say it is idiomatic Perl.
> >>
> >> It's plainly obscure. And I think it is not that often used -
> >
> > It's classic Perl.
> >
> > Perhaps you'd want to "use English;" and call it
> > $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR in a patch titled "Make things readable to
> > non-Perl natives".
> 
> Hmm, but do we want to see "use English" there in the first place?

Nevermind, I'm going to drop that patch.

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Krzesimir Nowak
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