Quote #274
The autodecrement is not magical.
More from Larry Wall
- Remember though that THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
- *** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'. if /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
- Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
- When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
- Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
- But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstr…
- In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
- And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else…