Quote #125
Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
More from Larry Wall
- P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight... :-)
- And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.
- Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
- I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the ga…
- But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leav…
- This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.
- I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
- switch (ref $@) { OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die; }