Larry Wall Quotes
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).
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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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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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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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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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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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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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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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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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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.