for sure in your research you read create-your-own-dualvars

Ha ha, this has now become hilarious!

Yesterday in Re^3: Rosetta Code: Long List is Long (Updated Solutions - dualvar), I claimed "Despite using Perl for 20 years, I'd never heard of dualvar before" ... yet on seeing your reference to good old brian_d_foy's dualvar article just now, I rushed to my bookshelf to find brian's superb book still sitting there, along with my customary book notes scribbled on a piece of paper inside the book ... which noted the existence of dualvar on page 30 as "interesting"! Oops, looks like my memory is starting to fail.

Also interesting is that the paper copy had some nice levity to it which is sadly missing from the Web version ... at least the paper copy concludes the dualvar item with "now that you know this, don't start using it everywhere. Save it for very special situations, like impressing people at conferences and cocktail parties." ... or impressing people at Perl Monks in the case of marioroy. :)

In reply to Re^2: Schizophrenic var by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Schizophrenic var by bliako

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