Re: With perl, don't expect consistency (was Re: How do I determinenumber of matches in a regex?)

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Me wrote:

> In general, with perl, don't expect consistency. This is just one
> of many principles which are considered sacrosanct in many
> other languages, but not in perl. Instead, think of something
> half way between a computer language and a natural human
> language like English, with all its odd twists and turns. More
> on this in a moment.

Since Tolkien is quoted a lot in Perl literature, I will paraphrase him in
this context: Perl has the inner consistency of Reality.

-- Brett
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