Damian Conway uses it in Perl Best Practices:
See “List Processing Side Effects” in Chapter 6 for specific advice on avoiding that particular kind of pedesagittry.
I can’t find a definition for this word… anywhere.
I smell a prank rather than an obscure word. It would be just the kind of thing that Damian does.
Re:Pedesagittry (Score:1) by rubmytummy (677080) on Thursday March 15, @06:57PM (#18369073)
Damian Conway made it up to describe certain unintended side effects of (mis)using $_ in Perl.
Here's a hint: in Latin a sagittarius is a kind of archer, and a pedes viator is a traveler on foot.
I have no idea is this is in anyway true...
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jmason on 2007-04-11T11:18:12
so "shooting oneself in the foot"? great neoarchaeologism.;) Re:Google says...
Aristotle on 2007-04-11T12:01:50
Ah, that would work. (I didn’t see your reply while composing mine.) I knew it was a Damianism.
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rafael on 2007-04-11T16:47:53
Awesome: in the French edition of PBP, this amusing neologism was translated (by Jean Forget) as "fusillade auto-podale".Re:Google says...
Aristotle on 2007-04-11T11:49:11
It looks right, but it doesn’t help me any. Archer and pedestrian? Now what?
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ajt on 2007-04-12T21:03:10
You could just send an email to "The Damian" and ask him..?
