in reply to Monk Levels

Forgive my ignorance, but does not the ultimate level of zen enligtenment suggest $saint = 0;?

That reminds me of this koan I heard about a zen master, his disciple, and a rabbi...

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Re: (Elbie) Re: Monk Levels
by MZSanford (Curate) on Jul 25, 2001 at 12:35 UTC
    you are very correct. At the time of writting a think i was using the "return true on success" logic of perl to imply 1 meant successful enlightenment ... but i think 0 might be better ;)
    Thus spake the Master Programmer:
    "When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave."
    -- The Tao of Programming
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      $saint = "0 but true"; #Everybody wins

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      perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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Re^2: Monk Levels
by lo_tech (Scribe) on Jan 13, 2006 at 01:11 UTC
    hmmm, $saint = $0; wouldn't be wrong, either
    Well, that's my $.02 worth. No, for refunds you'll have to check our customer service department.
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