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in thread conditional self-execution

It's the C legacy ya know ;).

Perl is environmentally friendly - it saves trees

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Re^4: conditional self-execution
by apotheon (Deacon) on Jan 28, 2008 at 03:41 UTC

    An entire category of entities just for three pseudo-constants, for hysterical purposes thanks to C legacy. Yeah. I think that qualifies as a wart on the language.

    . . . but I still do love my Perl so. Thanks again.

    print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
    		 - apotheon
    CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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      I personally believe you may be glad to know -just for the record- that in full respect to the principle of least surprise, in Perl 6 "this kinda things" will actually be made regular variables of an appropriate namespace, with an appropriate sigil, and an appropriate twigil.

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