in reply to Re: Perl's Bad Ideas
in thread Perl's Bad Ideas

>Too much semantics on one piece of notation.
 If Larry hadn't unnecessarily overloaded <>
>to do globbing, then you would be able to write

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That's what I said, or rather asked if that was why clintp disliked it.

As for the catch, yes. I have had to resort to readline before because of that.

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perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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Re: Re: Re: Perl's Bad Ideas
by clintp (Curate) on Apr 07, 2002 at 03:44 UTC
    That's exactly why I dislike it. I think I really started to dislike it the first time I had to teach filehandles and noted that...oh yeah, the thing in <>'s has to look *exactly* like <identifier> or <$identifier> or what happens is something else entirely. Ugh.
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