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

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 09:03 -0400 08/27/1999, John Porter wrote:
>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.

No, I didn't say the trick was useful. Only that the current puzzle needn't
be useful. The two lines alone with no other code support the trick.

Once you understand the trick you can make a useful script.

We're here to have fun... usefulness is an option :-)

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

Many inventions were invented first by someone else who didn't patent them
in time...

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