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Ilya Zakharevich writes:
: Larry Wall writes:
: > I prefer bytes over octets because it's one <mumble> shorter.
:
: use 8bit;
:
: Make this parse.
Offhand, I can't think of any reason not to, other than that people
will start clamoring for
package 8bit;
and
$8bit::foo
to parse too. From there they'll want
$8bit
to parse, and then
s/(\d+)foo/$1bar/
may break.
Larry