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En réponse à Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>:
> "Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com> writes:
> > Three questions:
> > 1) is semicolon the ONLY puncuation mark that has this odd
> > special-dispensation?
>
> Hell no:
>
> perl -e '*{" "} = sub {42}; print &{" "}'
>
> I can't pretend that I *like* this, but it has a certain cute insanity
> to it.
Since the symbol table is a hash, I'd say that the empty sub exists, too.
perl -e '*{""} = sub {13}; print &{""}'
I may be wrong, since this is not tested. I do not have Perl here.
(I feel like I read that in Effective Perl Programming, but can't find it
there)
--
Philippe BRUHAT - BooK
When you run from your problem, you make it that much harder for good
fortune to catch you, as well. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #14 (Epic))
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