Quote #33
In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
More from Larry Wall
- If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that... :-)
- I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-)
- Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*... :-)
- It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-)
- Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. :-)
- I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble... :-)
- Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... :-)
- Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)