Dan Sommers wrote:
On 29 Dec 2004 21:03:59 GMT,
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2004-12-29, Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Perl6 experiments with the use of guillemots as part of the syntax.
As if Perl didn't look like bird-tracks already...
http://www.seabird.org/education/animals/guillemot.html
http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Uria_aalge.htm
Well,
(1,1,2,3,5) Â+Â (1,2,3,5,8); # results in (2,3,5,8,13)
I was pretty sure that  and  were guillmots, but google sure
preferred the sea bird when I asked it.
They're guillemets (with an "e"); this is a [relatively] well-known
Adobe SNAFU. (A quick google search or two failed to find an
authoritative reference, but I know that such references are out there
somewhere.)
Regards,
Dan
Adobe recorded their error in the Red Book errata, but electronic
admissions of the same error are apparently impossible to come by.
regards
Steve
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