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If we take the version number away and update people silently, the users don't have to think and won't think about any of it.
-- Asa Dotzler

<fellow> Maybe Perl isn't given to over-magic line-noisy crap. I hear there's even a new version. What'd it get us?

<japh> ~~, for smart matching, with 27-way recursive runtime dispatch by operand type!

<fellow> ...

-- Ricardo Signes
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Quotes of the week

Posted Jul 8, 2011 8:44 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

Ah, so I'm not the only one who felt like "~~" was the "spin the wheel" operator...

Quotes of the week

Posted Jul 9, 2011 1:52 UTC (Sat) by chip (subscriber, #8258) [Link]

It's getting better in 5.16, thanks in large part to rjbs's rant.

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