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Postings from December 2001
On 5 December 2001 13:41, Piers Cawley [mailto:pdcawley@bofh.org.uk] wrote:
> "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.
One is reminded of "Generalizing Overloading for C++2000"
(http://www.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace98.pdf).
Richard Cox
Senior Software Developer
Dell Technology Online
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