>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Larry> Randal L. Schwartz writes:
Larry> : if ($a == $b) { ... } # should this be string or number comparison?
Larry> Actually, it's a syntax error, because of the ... there. :-)
Larry> But that reminds me of something I wanted a few months ago.
Larry> I'd entertain a proposal that ... be made a valid term that happens
Larry> to do nothing, so that you can run your examples through perl -c for
Larry> syntax checks. Or better, make it an official "stub" for rapid
Larry> prototyping, with some way of getting a warning whenever you execute
Larry> such a stub.
I've always wished it was the famous "do what I mean" operator:
if ($a eq "input") {
... # let perl figure out what to do here
} else {
print "I need more input!\n";
}
That'd make "rapid application development" truly possible.
perl -e '...' # all programs here
Maybe we can code it up with "Quantum::Superpositions::any"?
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