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DATE | 2004-11-20 |
FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Perl vs. PHP
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From owner-hangouts-destenys-at-mrbrklyn.com Sat Nov 20 21:36:13 2004 X-UIDL: ]eh!!:<,!!f5a"!E0i"! Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id iAL2aDUk003815 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:36:13 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) id iAL2aCLp003814 for hangouts-destenys; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:36:12 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangouts-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id iAL2aCSY003809; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:36:12 -0500 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) id iAL2aCPl003808; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:36:12 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:36:12 -0500 From: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS To: Billy Cc: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS , hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: [hangout] Perl vs. PHP Message-ID: <20041121023612.GA3778-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <200411192324.13032.sderrick-at-optonline.net> <20041120002945.GA11386-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <20041120120315.M12445-at-mrbrklyn.com> <20041120202757.A7940-at-bsd1.nyct.net> <1101003497.30671.0.camel-at-flatbush.mrbrklyn.com> <419FFAB7.6040508-at-dadadada.net> <20041121022511.GA3368-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <419FFDEE.4040900-at-dadadada.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <419FFDEE.4040900-at-dadadada.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-hangouts-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Keywords: X-UID: 39244 Status: RO Content-Length: 1362 Lines: 48
> > > >And so are cases. Cases are anal retenssive uneeded syntaxes in any > >language. > > > > > Unneeded? > Sure.
glab we agree otherwise I'd need to point the programmer to elseif
> I suppose hashtables are unneeded, too. That doesn't make them > extremely useful.
That's an added functionality. cases provide no additional functionality, only additional syntax cruft to debug.
> > I don't know why you think cases are anal retentive. > I use them all the time, even in Perl, and I wish it were easier to do so.
It is and I do. See labels and curly braces.
Ruben
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