Re: Invalid Operating System

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On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:33:09AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > $"=3D"whatever array seperator i choose";
>=20
> Any language (other than something like Forth, where there is only one
> syntactically significant character) in which that can possibly be a
> syntactically valid statement is corrupt beyond all hope of redemption.
>=20
> I *understand* what it's saying, and I *understand* why it works, I just
> consider it hateful *that* it exists.
>=20


Is that the best hate you can up with regarding the above statement?

It's even more hateful that $" is a global variable and you can't put
it in a namespace, or localize it. (And for the Perl weenies out there:
local has its own list of hate).


Abigail

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• peter (Peter da Silva) 16:33 on 15 Dec 2006
  • Abigail 08:52 on 16 Dec 2006
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    • A. Pagaltzis 16:36 on 16 Dec 2006
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• Martin Ebourne 16:38 on 15 Dec 2006
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    • peter (Peter da Silva) 19:49 on 15 Dec 2006
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