Re: Re: Answering questions and questioning questions

if symbolic references were all bad, then why would Perl allow them?

I think I just found something to stick in my sig :-)

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Re: Re: Re: Answering questions and questioning questions by DrHyde (Prior) on Dec 18, 2003 at 08:54 UTC
Because we need there to be MTOWT Shoot Your Foot Off. One of the other Extreme Foot-removal devices is one of the bugs noted in `perldoc perl`, namely that -w is not mandatory.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Answering questions and questioning questions by monsieur_champs (Curate) on Dec 19, 2003 at 21:55 UTC
I guess I should cite Larry Wall, from this post: "Of course, in Perl culture, almost nothing is prohibited. My feeling is that the world already has plenty of prohibitions, so why invent more?" --2nd State of the Onion "In few words, translating PerlMonks documentation and best articles to other languages is like building a bridge to join other Perl communities into PerlMonks family. This makes the family bigger, the knowledge greather, the parties better and the life easier." -- monsieur_champs	[reply]