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Re^2: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?

by tobyink (Canon)
on Oct 02, 2014 at 00:04 UTC ( [id://1102604]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?
in thread What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?

Why use something longer? Because $a and $b are special Perl globals, and B is a core Perl package.

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Re^3: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?
by chacham (Prior) on Oct 02, 2014 at 01:51 UTC

    Good point. In that case, i'd probably use my other favorites, moo and cow. :)

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