* Peter da Silva <[email protected]> [2006-12-18 17:55]:
> In Perl, a "/" may be an operator or a literal terminator. That
> would be like making +" the string concatenation operator in C.
> In any other language you'd be laughed out of the standards
> committee for proposing such a thing. Perl hackers violently
> defend it.

I'm not sure I understand, because what I'm reading doesn't make
any sense. Are you actually saying that every character should
have only a single meaning in any possible context? I don't think
you do, because that's not the case even in C.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Reply via email to