On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:39:42AM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> Yes; but the question isn't really "why", it's "how".
> Apparently chop() is specialized internally to detect the
> hashness of its argument, in a way that can't be expressed
> by a prototype.
That's what I thought, but no. The hash effect is pervasive and
chop() now has a simple prototype of @ in 5.7.0. (where before it was
undefined)
--
Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Plus I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an
infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada
the typical infinite loop would be normally be terminated by detonation.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
