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Juerd
Date:
September 25, 2005 03:52
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Re: Stringification, numification, and booleanification of pairs
Damian Conway skribis 2005-09-24  8:31 (+1000):
> >In my opinion, making the string value in interpolation different from
> >the value in Str context is madness.
> It's dwimmery.

It's dwymmery, or dwdmmery indeed. Not at all what I mean, am likely to
mean, or will ever mean.

> Which often looks like madness until you realize that it's just a
> reflection of how most hackers think. ;-)

This calls for a poll, because I believe nothing of this "most".

Hackers on this list, what do you think?


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