On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Juho Snellman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:24:52AM -0600, Michael W Thelen wrote: > > Actually, this is kind of an interesting question... what are the > > various ways that people have used to get a value of 1 into a > > variable? > > #!perl -i1 > > No sense in using it, of course, since the name of the variable sucks. >
Yes, I hadn't realised until I tried to use it in this tournament that the $^I trick isn't as clever as it deserves to be, because $^I is the only $^x that you can't write in only two characters. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
