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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...1''ge$1&&''$1''lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language-the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.
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I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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