>From: "Emmanuel. M. Decarie" <emm@cam.org> > what we call in French "effet de bord" "Effet de bord" == "side effect" Programming by side effects is generally considered bad style in anglophone countries as well. raf P.S. Is this on topic for this mailing list ? ; ) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch