Re: [FWP] Re: Golf Shell

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On May 11, Tom Rathborne said:

>On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 02:05:15PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
>> Randal Schwartz wrote:
>> >         perl -debug
>> 
>> This reminds me of the practice of re-arranging option letters to
>> make words -- such as PGP where 'seat' becomes 'steam' (not 'seatm',
>> etc.) when you add the -m option. Or regex modifiers à la /eieio or
>> /excess.
>
>    tar fvcM (pronounce that v as a u ... :) )
>
>    du -cks

  cat -vet

And WHEN are we getting a regex modifier of 'z'?  I am in serious need of
it so I can make fellow programmers double-take when I write a regex with
the modifiers

  /sexgizmo

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