Quote #104
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
More from Larry Wall
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- At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
- I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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- It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
- Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches. :-)
- Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.