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in reply to Humour – an important mechanism for language learning

The day we named the "goatse.cx operator" (for counting the number of regex matches) was hilarious.
$matches =()= $string =~ /regex/;

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Re^2: Humour – an important mechanism for language learning
by why_bird (Pilgrim) on May 01, 2008 at 08:59 UTC
    Haha! But also.. *shudder*.
    ........
    Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
    -- Groucho Marx
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Re^2: Humour – an important mechanism for language learning
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on May 01, 2008 at 16:57 UTC

    That is one piece of 'net lore I would like to remove from my memory.

    /me shudders

    --MidLifeXis