Re: [FWP] Quine, ontology, and Perl

[Gaal Yahas <gaal@forum2.org>]

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 03:37:28PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:18:15PM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> 
> > The subject of this message refers to W. V. Quine's essay "On What
> > There Is" where he suggest the criterion by which "to be is to be the
> > value of a variable". The above JAPH works by doing manipulation on
> > the symbol table entry--the name, not the value--of a variable.
> 
> Along similar lines:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/sh -- chipmunk (aka Ronald J Kimball)
>     perl -e'for (sort keys%main::) {print if $$_ eq 1}
>         ' -s  --  -' Just'  -' another '  -'Perl '  -'hacker
> ' http://www.tiac.net/users/chipmunk/ [rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu]

That's very nice!
(You don't need the "main" there though. :)
-- 
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