Re: Curly braces and the logic of PERL

Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 01:20 +0000, Rob Dixon wrote:

bottom-posting being a de-facto standard on this list, and despite a
majority of subscribers expecting it and preferring it

Really? When was the last poll conducted and where were its results
published?

That is facile Shawn. No poll has ever been taken on the the rules of this list.
It is a democracy, and if you object to the way it is run then it is up to you
to say so, and let your proposed changes be considered by everybody here.

At the moment, we at least

- Use the English language
- Talk only about Perl, and refer people on to specialist groups
- Use the bottom-post or interleaved-post style
- Recommend and use the coding style that is documented in perlstyle

There are of course many more core values like those, as well as traditions and
unspoken rules that apply to any community. I would very much like to see
standards for this list documented and published, as discussions like this
happen far too regularly. In the mean time I think it fair to correct on
another, and for each of us to expect to be corrected ourselves.

Rob





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