Quote #14

It's documented in The Book, somewhere...

More from Larry Wall

  1. It's all magic. :-)
  2. It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)
  3. It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
  4. Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z] [a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solu…
  5. I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
  6. Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
  7. I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
  8. Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-)

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