in reply to Re: P2P Golf: MoleSter
in thread P2P Golf: MoleSter

In some semblance of order ...

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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Re: P2P Golf: MoleSter
by jonadab (Parson) on Dec 23, 2004 at 22:58 UTC
    If you have open(F, ">$_[1]") and the filename is ">foo" ... what happens? The 3-arg open() prevents that.

    Gah. I keep forgetting that *nix allows shell metacharacters in filenames. (I cut my teeth on PC-DOS 3.3, which, whatever its other problems, does not permit that particular form of lossage.)


    "In adjectives, with the addition of inflectional endings, a changeable long vowel (Qamets or Tsere) in an open, propretonic syllable will reduce to Vocal Shewa. This type of change occurs when the open, pretonic syllable of the masculine singular adjective becomes propretonic with the addition of inflectional endings."  — Pratico & Van Pelt, BBHG, p68