Re: opening a file

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:38:35 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote:

Wir meinen damit daß das abwertend ist, fortran sonstwo zu üben.

This translates as:

We mean that the pejorative is fortran elsewhere to practice.

Your translation isn't correct, but it's quite good at a meta level: It
sounds about as wrong in English as the original sounds wrong in German.
I don't know Catherine, much less how how good her German is, but I see
two possibilities:

1) Her German isn't very good.

2) Her German is very good and she made errors on purpose to make the
point: To me as a German speaker the sentence sounds about as wrong
as Mirco's script looks wrong to me as a Perl programmer. No German
speaker would say this sentence (except as a parody on non-native
Speakers) and no Perl programmer would write a script like Mirco's
(except as a parody on Fortran). Just like you can't translate
literally from one natural language to another word by word, you
can't translate literally from one programming language to another.
The result may "work", but it isn't pretty.

I think you misunderestimate my ability to adhere to an idiom, but I took a
gander at Duden 2: Stilwörterbuch to see what the definitive german
reference has to say.

In § V 2 they list the Nuancierungen:
scherzhaft
ironisch
abwertend
nachdrücklich
verhüllend
, where "abwertend" kennzeichnet eine Aussage, die ein ablehnendes Urteil
enthält: Schiebung, Wisch.

Whatever joke there was has clearly waned, but I have one more question
about this material. Earlier you advised to use lexical filehandles,
something like:

open(my $fh, '<', $filename) or die "cannot open $filename: $!";

In chapter one of the camel book in the filehandles section, it just uses:

open(SESAME, "filename");

How does this differ from

open(my $SESAME, "filename");

, and does it make a difference?
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