| WebDragon | y'all should spell it in uppercase it being an acronym and all |
| reaction | Yes, but we're *lazy*! |
| * WebDragon | *so* noticed ;) |
| dkr | WebDragon: people that use CamelCase have no right to criticize about capitalization. :) |
| WebDragon | dkr: I hate underscores |
| * dkr | contemplates a source code filter that does lets you use spaces in var names by switch them to underscores at compile time |
| preaction | black magic |
| mst | dkr: source filters are evil. |
| mst | dkr: in a bad way. |
| mst | dkr: hacking the compiler is much more fun, and evil in a useful way :) |
| mst | WebDragon: recommended perl style is $var_name |
| mst | WebDragon: it's also more readable than $varName or $VarName |
| mst | WebDragon: I'd recommend trying it for at least a month |
| mst | WebDragon: also note that it'll make life easier because you'll be consistent with the rest of perl code |
| WebDragon | mst: I was thinking more along the lines of filenames and irc nicknames than perl variables |
| mst | WebDragon: ah. fair enough :) |
| * WebDragon | doesn't use CamelCase for perl variables |
| mst | WebDragon: then I shall cease complaining :) |
| avar | ${"Insert a descriptive essay about the variable here"} |
| WebDragon | rofl |
| rindolf | avar: that won't work with 'use strict 'refs'' |
| WebDragon | avar: I've seen things like that in real life and had recurring nightmares about them when I saw similar and sometimes worse things on thedailywtf.com |
| mst | rindolf: ${main::}{"Insert a descriptive essay about the variable here"} would :) |
| mst | rindolf: or you could just use %_ :) |
| dkr | my boss still occasionally uses vars like $x. still trying to beat that behavior out of him |
| * WebDragon | only uses x|y|z for Cartesian coordinate math |
| WebDragon | which, since I hardly ever do any of that, means the obvious |