Quote #37

Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)

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  1. I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble... :-)
  2. last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&$1ge$1&&$1lt$2' That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-)
  3. It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-)
  4. No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)
  5. I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-)
  6. Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do. :-)
  7. In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
  8. Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it. :-)

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