Quote #169
(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing... :-)
More from Larry Wall
- Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0? :-)
- And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
- Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
- Portability should be the default.
- Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map! Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations... Boss: And what's that 'goto' doin…
- If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero
- : - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
- Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?