Re^2: Overload abuse or is it just me?

Oh yeah, in the shell I use it a lot. But why bring this shell-ish way to Perl? Soon people will be writing "Perl Shell Scripts":

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Overload::Monster; # :-)

`ls -al /some/path` | `grep blah` > my $var;
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Actually it's quite common to see Perl code written as shell scripts, unfortunately...

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Re^3: Overload abuse or is it just me? by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 17, 2006 at 19:45 UTC
You say that in jest, but I've actually been rewriting some other peoples code where there actually are large chunks of shell script included in the Perl inside backticks. They'd probably love this . . . shudder	[reply]

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