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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
April 10, 2001 10:37
Subject:
Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1
Message ID:
20010410123625.O9907@chaos.wustl.edu
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:28:29AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > >  if (-M "http://www.perl.com/" < -M "http://www.python.org/") {...}
> > 
> > Nope. Doesn't work with other magic filenames, why should it with these?
> 
> Because Perl6 will be better than Perl5.
> I wouldn't mind (in fact I would expect) to see the magic power
> level increase considerably.

I dearly hope none of that elephantine bloat stands in the execution path
of Classic Perl.

> Not that I favor the given example, necessarily...
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Porter

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