Quote #166

Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map! Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations... Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!? Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'... Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.

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  1. : - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
  2. Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
  3. Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support. :-)
  4. Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0? :-)
  5. I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
  6. (Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing... :-)
  7. I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
  8. And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.

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