Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

[Marcel Grunauer <marcel.grunauer@lovely.net>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:46:52 +0100 (BST), you wrote:

> perl5 is 5.

And three wise men from perlland came and brought gifts.

"I bring you the gift of Common Sense," said the first.


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package Common::Sense;

use strict;
use constant UNIVERSE => 42;
use vars qw(@ISA $VERSION @EXPORT);
use Exporter;

@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(UNIVERSE twice thrice forever);
$VERSION = 0.01;

sub twice  (&) { my $coderef = shift; &$coderef for   1..2 }
sub thrice (&) { my $coderef = shift; &$coderef for   1..3 }
sub forever(&) { my $coderef = shift; &$coderef while 1    }

"Thus endeth common sense";
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And he spake: "Go forth and say:"

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use Common::Sense;
thrice  { print $i++, " and counting...\n" };
twice   { print $i++ };
forever { print $i++,"\n" };
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use Common::Sense;
while (exists $::{UNIVERSE}) { print $i++,"\n" }
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The second wise man stepped forward and said...

<Well, what did the other two wise men give unto perl?>


-- 
Marcel, Perl Padawan
sub AUTOLOAD{$_=$AUTOLOAD;s;.*::;;;y;_; ;;print}&Just_Another_Perl_Hacker;

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