Perl Bugs and Comments

[Brandon Allbery]

As quoted from <1418 at devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by lwall at devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
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| : 7) I've had trouble with the array/scalar notation, as well as not
| :    always being certain whether to use a $ or @ at all.  I've always 
| 
| The thing I find interesting is that nobody has EVER complained about my
| forcing them to put $ or @ on the front of every variable in sight, when awk
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I didn't complain because I use Accell at work; in Accell/Language, you can
precede variables by $ and thus guard against their being treated as keywords
by a later version.  Makes sense to me, and I wish it were a little more
common.
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