Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:55:44 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freefall.freebsd.org>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib gethostname.pl Makefile Message-ID: <448.824219744@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:30:33 PST." <16385.824218233@time.cdrom.com>
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> > require "gethostname.pl"; > > $thishost = &gethostname'gethostname; > > Only in perl could you have a construct so chillingly bizarre as this > and get away with it! :-) On the other hand, the fact that perl programs compress less than say, C or tcl, is an indication of a more well balanced use of the character set. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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