At 02:47 PM 7/30/01 -0400, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan wrote:
>On Jul 30, Paul said:
>
> >--- Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> perl -pe '$_ x= !$seen{$_}++' (attributed to some of Larry's genius)
> >
> >LOL!!! Twistedly brilliant!
> >
> >Ok, lemme see if I can parse this.....
>[correct prognosis snipped]
> >Is that right?
>
>Yes. I attribute that to Larry Wall, because he wrote something like
>
> perl -pe '$_ x= /pattern/'
>
>to make a poor man's grep. I found that beautiful.
It is beautiful, but I fear it could scare a beginner away. I'd rather
such brilliance were directed to the Fun With Perl list than exposed to
people many of whom are no doubt still wondering whether Perl is a
write-only language.
Which might be a cue for Tim Maher to pipe up and talk about his "minimal
Perl" dialect, if he's here...
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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