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On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 3, 2008 22:25 UTC (Wed) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: On the future of Perl 5 by dlang
Parent article: On the future of Perl 5

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

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

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