>>>>> "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.

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