Re: [FWP] From the Perl Conference 3.0 Perl quiz (1)

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Vicki Brown wrote:
> At 23:47 -0400 08/25/1999, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> >
> >I don't think that's quite what Jon said.  There _were_ other lines in the
> >script -- otherwise it wouldn't have done anything useful.
> 
> Useful?? Who said anything about usefulness? :*)

As a matter of fact, it is quite useful.
Since I first learned the trick there have been a number
of occasions when it really came in handy.

What bugs me is that the idea had occured to me before I saw
Abigail's sig; but I never tried it out.

-- 
John Porter


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