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Re: [PATCH 1/5] gitweb: Add a comment explaining the meaning of $/

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2013, 16:19 UTC
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@endocode.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 16:11 +0100, Jakub Narębski wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@endocode.com> wrote:
>>
>> > So future reader will know what does it mean without running "perldoc
>> > perlvar".
>>
>> Hmmm... shouldn't future reader know it anyway?  It is not that cryptic.
>> I'd say it is idiomatic Perl.
>
> It's plainly obscure. And I think it is not that often used -
It's classic Perl.

Perhaps you'd want to "use English;" and call it $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR in a patch titled "Make things readable to non-Perl natives".

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  1. 0/5 Show extra branch refs in gitweb v6Krzesimir Nowak, Dec 4, 2013
  2. 1/5 gitweb: Add a comment explaining the meaning of $/Krzesimir Nowak, Dec 4, 2013
  3. Jakub NarębskiDec 4, 2013
  4. Krzesimir NowakDec 4, 2013
  5. Martin LanghoffDec 4, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2013
  7. Krzesimir NowakDec 5, 2013
  8. Jakub NarębskiDec 4, 2013
  9. Jakub NarębskiDec 4, 2013
  10. 2/5 gitweb: Move check-ref-format code into separate functionKrzesimir Nowak, Dec 4, 2013
  11. Jakub NarębskiDec 4, 2013
  12. Krzesimir NowakDec 5, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2013
  14. Krzesimir NowakDec 5, 2013
  15. 3/5 gitweb: Return plain booleans in validation methodsKrzesimir Nowak, Dec 4, 2013
  16. Jakub NarębskiDec 4, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2013
  18. Krzesimir NowakDec 5, 2013
  19. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2013
  20. Jakub NarębskiDec 5, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2013
  22. 4/5 gitweb: Add a feature for adding more branch refsKrzesimir Nowak, Dec 4, 2013
  23. Jakub NarębskiDec 4, 2013
  24. Krzesimir NowakDec 5, 2013
  25. Jakub NarębskiDec 5, 2013
  26. Krzesimir NowakDec 10, 2013
  27. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2013
  28. Jakub NarębskiDec 10, 2013
  29. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2013
  30. 5/5 gitweb: Denote non-heads, non-remotes branchesKrzesimir Nowak, Dec 4, 2013
  31. Jakub NarębskiDec 4, 2013
  32. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2013

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