Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

[Courageous]

> >This is a conceptualization issue, and I suspect to a degree,
> >false. If "x" is merely a label, one can imagine x labeling
> >3 or x labelling red quite easily. Your analogy works because
> >you carefully framed it, but there's nothing at all to say that
> >your framing of it was right.
> >
> >To the contrary; while I can't prove it, I do believe it's wrong.
> 
> Nobody expects a proof, but a just-as-carefully-framed
> counter-analogy would be a good start...

I don't know why I'd need a carefully framed analogy at all.
The labelling concept speaks for itself, and in fact is the
way that some people teach python. It seems to be quite
intuitive.

C/