On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 15:15, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:00:22PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > Perl 6 culture might feebly try to discourage the redefinition of truth. > > Hmm, and here I was thinking that the culture was rapidly evolving > towards "There Is More Than One Way To Define It". :-) I would suggest that it's been more of, perl -nle 'push @{$x{uc substr($_,0,1)}}, $_;END{p("TMTOWTDI",\%x)}sub p {my $a=shift;my $h=shift; my $w=shift;$w=[] unless $w;my $letter = substr($a,0,1);$a=substr($a,1);foreach my $word (@{$h->{$letter}}){ if ($a) {p($a,$h,[EMAIL PROTECTED],$word])} else {print join " ", @$w, $word} }}' /usr/share/dict/words But, what do I know? ;-) -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith "It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback