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Re: Regex query
From:
Jonathan Scott Duff
Date:
September 20, 2002 20:27
Subject:
Re: Regex query
Message ID:
20020920222657.C7420@cbi.tamucc.edu
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:16:38PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to John Williams:
> > I believe the last two cases should be:
> > (7,) == 1
> > (,) == 0
>
> Gack! It's Python's tuple syntax! Run away! Run away!
>
> Seriously, having actually programmed Python for money (no smiley --
> it was NOT fun), I can say that this syntactical hack would be a
> horrible choice for borrowing from Python.
I would be surprised if the entire Perl community didn't unanimously
agree with you. I know this is one of the pythonisms that bugs me the
most.
-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
duff@cbi.tamucc.edu