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What I really hate about #perl is the Carp module, with "carp", "croak", "confess", "cluck" which make no sense as names, as opposed to "die" and "warn".
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Rev. Roger BW 😷
Rev. Roger BW 😷  
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"superwarn", "superdie", "superdie with stack trace", "superwarn with stack trace", right? I think if you told a native English speaker to match up those four things they'd probably get it right, but…
christian mock
christian mock  
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@RogerBW It would suffice to override "die" and "warn" with stack-tracing variants (or maybe there's a module that does this that I don't know about?) -- "carp" is a fish to me, "croak" and "cluck" are frog/hen sounds, "confess" is catholic and usually performed without dieing...
@Rev. Roger BW 😷
Rev. Roger BW 😷
Rev. Roger BW 😷  
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Oh indeed, the meanings have been tortured for the assonance. (I think the without-trace versions are so that a module can report an error in the context of the actual call the user made into the module, rather than where the error happened in the guts of the module.)
christian mock
christian mock  
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@RogerBW Yup. Found "Carp::Always", but that basically turns Perl into Java, so I'll just have to remember to "confess" as the good catholic boy I once was...
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@christian mock Perl replaces builtins with puns, and standardizes on puns, this then creates some level of Secret Culture
@christian mock
christian mock
christian mock  
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@silverwizard yes, and most of the rest of Perl is pretty straightforward (regarding built-in function names, let's not get into the syntax)...
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@christian mock I love perl - but I'm not in its Culture. It means that I trip over their puns a lot.
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