From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:28:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] gitweb: Add a comment explaining the meaning of $/
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In-Reply-To: <CACPiFCJON33dz64qSZDnrCo8hbVpbxk7k65xmW1oBiZ4Muzcbg@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@endocode.com> wrote:
>> 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".

Hmm, but do we want to see "use English" there in the first place?