Quote #35
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-)
More from Larry Wall
- I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-)
- I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble... :-)
- In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
- Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)
- If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that... :-)
- last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&$1ge$1&&$1lt$2' That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-)
- Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*... :-)
- No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)