Re: Woah
| From: | Rodent of Unusual Size | Date: | Sat, 08 Sep 2001 03:33:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Woah | ||
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* On 2001-09-07 at 23:06,
Joey Smith <joey@joeysmith.com> excited the electrons to say:
>
> So let's be the first ones to get our heads on straight and get rid of
> this ridiculous concept. It is, IMHO, one of the worst ideas in the
> history of the world...I'd really rather be reading perl regular
> expressions than this.
Um, it has been around since sometime in version 3. Have you
noticed it before? Has it bothered you?
I think at this point it should be considered a legacy exception.
Getting rid of it is going to break a lot of existing *user* scripts.
Doing that to them for the sake of language elegance hardly sounds
like a good idea to me..
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