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On the future of Perl 5

On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 3, 2008 20:16 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: On the future of Perl 5 by jengelh
Parent article: On the future of Perl 5

only a handlful of the puctuation variables are commonly used, so it's not like you need to memorize all of them.


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On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 3, 2008 22:25 UTC (Wed) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

And you can use English; if you would rather use $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR rather than $/ (or if you get $/ confused with $\).

On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 3, 2008 22:35 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, wait, they should have called that use Cobol;

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