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From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Subject: Re: Better writing form
Message-ID: <1995Feb15.231317.17177@netlabs.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 23:13:17 GMT
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In article <792295924snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk writes:
: In article <3ha19b$ppj@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
:            etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk "Edmund Grimley-Evans" writes:
: > Come on Ivan, he didn't say anything about "letters". There are about
: > 96 characters available in ASCII. That should be enough. It doesn't
: > matter if the language ends up looking like a regular expression in
: > Perl, does it?
: 
: Ugh! Pass the sickbucket someone.

It actually helps a lot that Perl 5 lets you put whitespace between the
"morphemes" in a regular expression.  Why nobody thought of this before
is beyond me.  It's still somewhat distasteful, but there's no longer a
need for the sickbucket unless you're into bolemia for the sport of it.

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com
