From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] gitweb: Add a comment explaining the meaning of $/ Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:28:53 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1386164583-14109-1-git-send-email-krzesimir@endocode.com> <1386164583-14109-2-git-send-email-krzesimir@endocode.com> <1386171977.2173.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Krzesimir Nowak , Jakub =?utf-8?Q?Nar=C4=99bs?= =?utf-8?Q?ki?= , git , Eric Sunshine To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 04 21:29:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VoJ49-0004kb-Fb for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 21:29:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755096Ab3LDU25 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:28:57 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:55886 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755220Ab3LDU24 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:28:56 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1717A56FBF; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:28:56 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=4p982DOzNpsC bzSX19yvCSn+fNw=; b=LPxomdZg+JtjFvkRa3amzY3bKO94ayEFj6yhmJgFS/23 aFezv6hQ5B/97dEy+Lqxk/BicHI36Q9fRBR+pSZtr7uMvpcVW7N9YbzBK6ekhRNf C7LEXDyzzrs6b48c+dTNqdHKA32pnW+9YaIEDHm+r7umqi+XnbePqMwBbEwTWvk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=fQ8uPG AWviWXvnQQ0i/iceSBLFY6B1DuufixOHV/f5ICxRlPBZ1lQxGYQ8W4p8UW1klify i4urnH7HT9xFbGCT6UUM7LMOAo4SULWGeZFBhWKW8ABHcJ95Y2fmhLHHpUC8G1Yg lGdlYn19VwEW0NrLkCE5S8vDCGENpmbh1daZg= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F2C56FBE; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:28:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 43A8756FBA; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:28:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Martin Langhoff's message of "Wed, 4 Dec 2013 11:19:02 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B24C5BE6-5D22-11E3-B7F5-1B26802839F8-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff writes: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Krzesimir Nowak wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 16:11 +0100, Jakub Nar=C4=99bski wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Krzesimir Nowak wrote: >>> >>> > So future reader will know what does it mean without running "per= ldoc >>> > perlvar". >>> >>> Hmmm... shouldn't future reader know it anyway? It is not that cry= ptic. >>> 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?