Re: [FWP] Copying hashes

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 05:04:08AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> In article <20000201013158.A196328@linguist.dartmouth.edu>,
> Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 11:40:11PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> >> PS.  I support delete and exists on arrays ;)
> >
> >P.S.  I support file test operators on regular expressions.
> 
> You're missing the subtext here.  delete and exist on arrays will be
> in 5.5.64 (and presumably in 5.6).  This raised quite a ruckus on p5p
> even after Larry Wall blessed it and indicated no further discussion
> was needed.

I'm not missing any subtext; I was involved in that discussion.
(You can guess which side I was arguing. :)

Larry didn't exactly bless this feature; he offered to take the blame for
it.

Ronald

P.S.  I support bitwise operators on filehandles.

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