RE: Apparel design entries

#5 is the way to go (if there aren't any other entries still to come). I'd like maybe something even more obscure, but #5 combines simplicity and obscurity - a feature of Perl :).

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RE: RE: Apparel design entries by Anonymous Monk on Jun 14, 2000 at 18:45 UTC
A humble novice writes... Could one of the enlightened masters here please explain the pun in #5 ? I've never even had course to use $^ before. Is it a heresy that I had to look it up in the Gecko book, not having either Camel or Llama to hand ? -- or is that just on Slashdot ?	[reply]
The meaning of $^X (was RE: RE: RE: Apparel design entries) by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 14, 2000 at 19:08 UTC
A look into perlvar tells me that `$^X` is the name of the binary that the script was started from. Run this code to see it : `perl -e 'print $^X'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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