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Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL.
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The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.
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How do you type it? With your keyboard.
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Well, sure, I explicitly mentioned 'vtables' last time I brought this up. But a single pointer is fairly paltry, as tables go.
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Just don't create a file called -rf.
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They can always run stderr through uniq.
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types-in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...
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