
Sept. 27, 2011
12:09 a.m.
On 27 September 2011 05:12, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
"our" is something in Perl, right? My proposal was "own", which is much older (Algol-60). Probably nobody else here remembers it.
I do :-) Not sure that Algol-60 using it is a good enough reason for recommending it, though. The name didn't make sense to me even back then... (Actually, after this discussion, the logic is clearer - so congratulations, Nick, for clarifying a 40-year old puzzle for me!) Call by name, anyone? Paul.