Quote #140

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. :-)

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  1. To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. :-)
  2. It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip... :-)
  3. I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
  4. As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
  5. Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers... :-)
  6. The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pl…
  7. Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that f…
  8. That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon

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