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in thread How do I pronounce all this stuff

"I leave out parens and curlies where they're not optional."

Are you sure? (Sorry Juerd, I just couldn't resist. ;-)


Everything went worng, just as foreseen.

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Re: Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff
by Molt (Chaplain) on Apr 12, 2002 at 10:05 UTC

    I think he meant it the way he said, as 'while (<>)' was pronounced as 'while diamond'? He knows the parens are needed, the Perl-knowledgable listener knows the parens are needed, so in a spoken context they're little more than line noise.

    Vocal line noise. Now there's a scary thought.