Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: David Cantrell
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 01:14 on 20 Dec 2006

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:44:29AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> No longer, if you ask it not to; although I wish they hadn't
> fixed that because the mere concept of English.pm is an
> abomination.

So I take it you don't want me to release French.pm then?

> > I could go on, getting in to the sorts of hate that Perl
> > enables - s;foo;bar; anyone?
> That's annoying, but do you find the following pretty?
>     s/^file:\/\/\/?//
> I guess the set of delimiters could have excluded things like
> semicolons, though; granted.

I thought that one of the common rants about perl was that it had too
many special cases.  Surely making s;;; illegal would be to introduce
yet another.

-- 
David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator Of The World

There's stuff above here

A. Pagaltzis 01:44 on 17 Dec 2006
- Peter da Silva 02:14 on 17 Dec 2006
  - A. Pagaltzis 04:20 on 17 Dec 2006
    - too deep to show
  - demerphq 18:05 on 17 Dec 2006
- H.Merijn Brand 10:26 on 17 Dec 2006
  - Martin Ebourne 11:13 on 17 Dec 2006
  - Earle Martin 12:42 on 17 Dec 2006
  - Peter da Silva 14:35 on 17 Dec 2006
- David Landgren 17:00 on 17 Dec 2006
- David Cantrell 01:14 on 20 Dec 2006

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