Re: $? What does this reference?

in reply to $? What does this reference?

“Larry Wall can't type.”

Or maybe it's just an example of the supposedly-admirable quality of “laziness.” Anyhow, Perl is unfortunately full of a full set of these “chicken scratch” variables, and they are quite an entrenched part of the language. More-or-less on par with the MIT Lisp-hackers of yore who used to go around saying to one another: “food-p?” ... confident that no one else would understand what they were talking about, and snickeringly proud of it.

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Re^2: $? What does this reference? by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Apr 09, 2008 at 21:32 UTC
“Larry Wall can't type.” Actually, the $? variable derives from shell syntax Dave.	[reply]
Re^2: $? What does this reference? by friedo (Prior) on Apr 09, 2008 at 22:23 UTC
Everybody knows the much funnier joke is `split-p soup?`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: $? What does this reference? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 10, 2008 at 02:42 UTC
DEADBEEF	[reply]

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