On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Chas. Owens wrote:
> 2009/4/24 Jay Savage :
> snip
>>> Hmm, I don't think it would reparse the whole file, but
>>> it does run in a BEGIN block...hmm, I must test it.
>>>
>>
>> It runs in a begin block, but it is still lexically scoped. Pragmata
>> are very special
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:53, Chas. Owens wrote:
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> All of this is good information, but for one thing: not all pragmas
> are lexically scoped. Hence the need to test and/or read the docs.
> For instance, the re pragma[1] is only partially lexical:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use w
2009/4/24 Jay Savage :
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>> Hmm, I don't think it would reparse the whole file, but
>> it does run in a BEGIN block...hmm, I must test it.
>>
>
> It runs in a begin block, but it is still lexically scoped. Pragmata
> are very special cases of modules that provide modifications of
> compile-time
please don't top post...
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Vance E. Neff wrote:
> Well it turns out that error was caused by some other problem. I did
> not realize that "our" was not a function. So you can't do something
> like this:
> our $variable = "value1" if (something is true);
> our $
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Chas. Owens wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 17:54, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Chas. Owens wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:25, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
>>> wrote:
>>> snip
>>> The utf8 pragma affects the whole file,
>>
>> Well, only the part of the file th
2009/4/24 Jan Buchmann :
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> Try the term "Schweizer Sackmesser" in google and check the pictures.
> It is actually a knife, not a chainsaw :).
snip
I believe you have missed the joke. Perl is called a Swiss Army
Chainsaw to bring into you mind an image of a the usefulness of a
Swiss Army Knif
Jay Savage wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Robert Citek wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am giving a presentation soon and will be talking a bit about perl.
>> I'd like to include an image about perl that describes it as the Swiss
>> army chainsaw. Ideally, I'd like to have a red chainsaw
