Perl is worse!
Steve Lamb
grey at despair.rpglink.com
Sat Jul 29 22:21:54 EDT 2000
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:18:31 GMT, Joshua Macy <amused at webamused.com> wrote:
> So it's not the term itself you find offensive, but the way it's
>used? It sounds to me like what you're objecting to is the mere fact
>that some people dislike the behavior that Larry Wall calls "automagic",
>not that they use the same term that he does to describe that behavior.
What, is this forum a place where context means nothing and everything,
including natural language, has to be typed to death. Let me give you a basic
example. Nigger. Offensive or not? Hmm, tell me, is it?
Marcelus Wallus - "You my nigger?"
Whoops, guess it isn't in some contexts, now is it? What I object to is
their stating that it is a bad thing when it is not, it is just different, and
that was a term that I was unfamiliar with that they were clearly using in the
negative based on context.
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