En op 09 augustus 2002 sprak Stephen Turner: > Ah yes, the good old "luck" approach!
The what the $#?!!?? -- that can't possibly work approach. But it does, and the test program is sound, so it must be right. I have used this so often, I feel like applying for a patent. :) > By the way, isn't it incredibly annoying that there isn't > a single Perl variable which defaults to 1? Incredibly. This has been a flea in my ear many times. In my Somersaulting camel program at: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Acme-EyeDrops I used "sleep!$%" instead of "sleep 1" to save quite a few strokes, because !$% does not require sightly encoding, while " 1" sightly encodes to: ('{'^'[').('^'^('`'|'/')). /-\
