Re: [Fun With Perl]

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 19:49 -0400 6/11/99, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> On the snippet you posted yesterday [the one with the readdir loop with
> the odd '/.+/' in it that of course should have been a '/^\./'] i was
> wondering: when I looked at that code, the very first thing I saw was
> what to me was the obvious typo: the '>' which seemed obviously and
> blatantly wrong [and hence my comment about the unix "rm -r * ~'
> problem].
>
> I've exchanged email with other folk who *ONLY* saw the RE problem: I
> shudder to think that they would've actually fixed the RE and then *RUN*
> the thing...  And so I'm wondering: what did you intend as the 'oops'??
> To me, an open that clobbers every file is a lot bigger oops than an RE
> that actually saves your behind [since it matches everything and saves
> you from trashing the directory].

My, my...

I never even saw that one (not my code :-)

My _guess_ is that this was a "real" typo (i.e. the author came into my
office and wrote the code on the whiteboard and I copied it from there.

But yes, certainly, if the > was in the original it would run _even faster_
(and once :( after the pattern was fixed.

rm -r * .o

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