On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:16:38PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to John Williams:
> > I believe the last two cases should be:
> >     (7,)    == 1
> >     (,)     == 0
> 
> Gack!  It's Python's tuple syntax!  Run away!  Run away!
> 
> Seriously, having actually programmed Python for money (no smiley --
> it was NOT fun), I can say that this syntactical hack would be a
> horrible choice for borrowing from Python.  

I would be surprised if the entire Perl community didn't unanimously
agree with you.  I know this is one of the pythonisms that bugs me the
most.

-Scott
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