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Long ago Tom Christiansen wrote:
This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
For example, you can't now safely say
/$var
At 11:23 AM -0600 on 8/24/00, Tom Christiansen wrote:
This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
For example, you can't now safely say
/$var (foo) \1/
and guarantee for arbitrary contents of $var that your you have
the right number backref anymore.
Good point. Thanks.
