Quote #15
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)
More from Larry Wall
- It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
- 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…
- It's all magic. :-)
- Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
- It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
- Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-)
- I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
- Perl programming is an *empirical* science!