in reply to Re: Portable length() in bytes.
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That's almost as stupid as asking why would you want a pointer instead of a reference, why would you want an int as opposed to a float, or why you would want a hash instead of two parallel arrays of "keys" and "values".

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Re^3: Portable length() in bytes.
by ysth (Canon) on Nov 08, 2004 at 18:11 UTC
    Almost but not quite. Thanks for contributing to the conversation.
      Glad that you agree that it is at least somewhat stupid :-)