How to pronounce $

[Hobo Salesman]

I realize this may be a stupid question but if theres one thing I don't
fear it's making an ass of myself.

How do you pronounce $, in the context of it defining a variable? When
I was 10 years old or so and starting programming in basic foo$ was a
string of text, so now for me "$"="string" whenever I see the damn
thing. Now in perl I see $x=1 and a voice in my head says "string x
equals one", which makes me a feel a little daft because unlike basic
the same type holds strings and integers.

"Dollar sign foo" is clumsy, so is the general pronounciation "scalar
foo", "array foo", etc?

 

[supercrazy74]

I realize this may be a stupid question but if theres one thing I don't
fear it's making an ass of myself.

How do you pronounce $, in the context of it defining a variable? When
I was 10 years old or so and starting programming in basic foo$ was a
string of text, so now for me "$"="string" whenever I see the damn
thing. Now in perl I see $x=1 and a voice in my head says "string x
equals one", which makes me a feel a little daft because unlike basic
the same type holds strings and integers.

"Dollar sign foo" is clumsy, so is the general pronounciation "scalar
foo", "array foo", etc?

I would pronounce it as it is, a scalar. So I would say $x=1 as scalar
x equals one. (By the way, if you didnt know, a scalar (a variable
prefixed with $) holds more than just strings and integers.)

 

[Guest]

: I realize this may be a stupid question but if theres one thing I don't
: fear it's making an ass of myself.

: How do you pronounce $, in the context of it defining a variable?

: "Dollar sign foo" is clumsy, so is the general pronounciation "scalar
: foo", "array foo", etc?

Virtually a question self answered. The mnemonics go really as
$calar and @rray (there is no nice catch for the %ash, though).

Read more about pronouncable and/or memorizable names of weird characters
in perldoc perlvar.

Oliver.

 

[Hobo Salesman]

I sympathize. Due to my own unfortunate (read: catastrophic) TRS-80
BASIC incident years back, I too still find myself pronouncing '$' as
"string"... even in Perl.

Ha, thanks, now I don't feel so bad. It wouldn't be so bad if it were a
throwback from a respectable language, but I feel like if I said it to
someone they'd roll their eyes and expect my next question to be what
Perl's equivalent of "goto" is...

HS

 

[Dr.Ruud]

Tim Hammerquist schreef:

AFAICT, the accepted standard, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread,
is "$tring" and "@rray". Try that.

ITYM: $calar and @rray

 

[Tad McClellan]

I realize this may be a stupid question but if theres one thing I don't
fear it's making an ass of myself.

I can testify from extensive first-hand experience that embarrassing
yourself in front of hundreds of people is a very good way to
"internalize" lessons.

How do you pronounce $, in the context of it defining a variable?

"Dollar sign foo" is clumsy, so is the general pronounciation "scalar
foo", "array foo", etc?

The general pronounciations are "$calar foo" and "@rray foo".

 

[Ben Morrow]

Ha, thanks, now I don't feel so bad. It wouldn't be so bad if it were a
throwback from a respectable language, but I feel like if I said it to
someone they'd roll their eyes and expect my next question to be what
Perl's equivalent of "goto" is...

Err... goto ?

Now, GOSUB is a different matter... (/me cringes in recollection)

Ben

 

[Hobo Salesman]

Err... goto ?

Now, GOSUB is a different matter... (/me cringes in recollection)

Goto is the same as gosub except it never returns.