On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:33:09AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > > $"="whatever array seperator i choose"; > > Any language (other than something like Forth, where there is only one > syntactically significant character) in which that can possibly be a > syntactically valid statement is corrupt beyond all hope of redemption. > > I *understand* what it's saying, and I *understand* why it works, I just > consider it hateful *that* it exists. >
Is that the best hate you can up with regarding the above statement? It's even more hateful that $" is a global variable and you can't put it in a namespace, or localize it. (And for the Perl weenies out there: local has its own list of hate). Abigail
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