From owner-freebsd-commit Tue Feb 13 05:55:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA12301 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:55:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA12292 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:55:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA12281 for cvs-gnu-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:55:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA12276 Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:55:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tmLCt-0003wkC; Tue, 13 Feb 96 05:55 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00450; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:55:44 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Joerg Wunsch , CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib gethostname.pl Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:30:33 PST." <16385.824218233@time.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:55:44 +0100 Message-ID: <448.824219744@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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.