RE: [FWP] Drunk Driving redux (what was he thinking?)

[Larry Rosler <lr@hpl.hp.com>]

> From: Vicki Brown [mailto:vlb@cfcl.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:35
> To: Fun With Perl
> Subject: [FWP] Drunk Driving redux (what was he thinking?)
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if this is Fun With Perl but there is no Pathos With Perl
list.
> I needed to share this...
...
>           ( $szRoot = $szPhdFile ) =~ s/\.phd\..*$//;
...
> The casual usage of the
>     ($a = $b) =~ s/pat//;
> idiom in the 4th line helped throw me off kilter.
> 
> TMTOWTDI... but sometimes, some of those ways are just plain the wrong
> choice. At least, if one wishes to follow the True Path of
Enlightenment as
> regards "Making the Goal clearer to the Reader".

So you have learned a new idiom, and it's now clear to you.  What's
pathetic about that?

No sympathy here!

-- 
Larry Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com

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