Re: [PATCH] git-mv.perl: use stderr for error output and cleanup

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 7, 2006, 00:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4q4grhjy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601061525100.3169@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

>> After all, that's spelled "f o r", but pronounced "foreach". :)
>
> It is official: perl people are crazy.

I sometimes pronounce "foreach" when I see "ef oh ar" in Perl programs, but I do not do that aloud around other people.

My point was that things like this:

>>   print H "$_\0" for @deletedfiles;

is perfectly fine among Perl people (and I would probably even encourage rewriting git-*.perl scripts in more Perlish style if the project were about an SCM primarily targetted for Perl people --- it is not), but look obfuscated without merit to people who do not talk Perl.