Quote #149
(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'. :-))
More from Larry Wall
- Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
- Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. :-)
- I was trying not to mention backtracking. Which, of course, means that yours is 'righter' than mine, in a theoretical sense.
- You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so. :-)
- 'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
- There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
- That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns... :-)
- It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend.