----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Cozens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:04 PM Subject: Re: backticks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Sherman) writes: > > $ find . -name \*.pl | wc -l > > 330 > > $ find . -name \*.pl -exec grep -hlE 'qx|`|`|readpipe' {} \; | wc -l > > 123 > > > > `` gets used an awful lot > > But that's in Perl 5, which is a glue language. > And Perl 6 isn't? I use backticks quite a bit in Perl, and I don't see that changing if I upgrade to Perl 6. Joe Gottman