note hardburn <p>Until a new reserved word is added to the language. I could see <code>dec</code> used as a decrement operation equivilent to <code>$foo = $bar - 1;</code>. Or maybe you have a module that imports an <code>apr()</code> sub into your namespace for calculating Annual Precentage Rates. Or maybe something completely different.</p> <p>The point is, you can't guarentee that any of those won't take a different meaning at some point in the future, so you should just avoid using them as barewords.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-195718"> <p>"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, <i>Myst: The Book of D'ni</i>.</p> </div></div> 450080 450135