On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:58:13AM -0400, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > On 13 Apr 2002 11:56:33 -0700, Jeff Zucker wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>if Larry had wanted Perl to be able to distinguish numbers from > >>numberlike > >>strings he would have given us a way before B. > > > >I think that needs to be ammended to: �"If Larry had wanted us not > >to be > >able to distinguish numbers from numberlike strings, he wouldn't have > >invented Randal." > > > > Um, that's very cute, but it seems very "internal" to me. What are the > odds that this is going to work in Perl 6? I'm not so sure I'd depend > upon it.
Matthew, are you implying that Perl 6 is un-inventing Randal? ;-> T -- Thomas A. Lowery See DBI/FAQ http://xmlproj.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/fom
