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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...
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: - cut in regexpsI don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...
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I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl.
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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I was trying not to mention backtracking. Which, of course, means that yours is 'righter' than mine, in a theoretical sense.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.
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Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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