Re: [FWP] another word for object?

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

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:07:03PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> At 08:50 PM 9/5/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
> >David L. Nicol wrote:
> > >
> > > quoting upside down has its place; in fact in business negotiations
> > > it can save everyone involved a lot of scrolling
> >
> >Even then it's only necessary because they won't (or can't)
> >edit down the quoted material to the relevant bits.

This discussion is unnecessary.


Ronald


P.S.  ObPerl:

#!perl -n
$/ = $n = '';
@p = <>;
print shift @p;
for (@p) {
    s/^> -- ?\n.*//ms;
    if (/^> /m or /wrote:$/m) {
        print;
    } else {
        $n .= $_;
    }
}
print $n;
__END__

:)

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