>>>>> "Austin" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Austin> This is surprising. Perl has never failed to provide me with Austin> an adequacy of rope in other places. Why get squeamish in this Austin> instance? The rope in other places provides overwhelming positive benefits as well, I gather. Everything is a tradeoff. Austin> Hmm. While I don't really expect to see leap year code written Austin> using nested modifiers, I think it would be nice to have each Austin> of them appear once: Austin> print for @a if $debug; I actually consider that an annoying statement. I have to back up three times to figure out what it means. I think Larry was on the right track here. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!