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From:
Jeff Pinyan
Date:
February 10, 2000 20:02
Subject:
Re: use octets; and "escaping the piranha's"
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0002102302040.26889-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Feb 10, Nathan Torkington said:

>Mark Mielke writes:
>> Haha... has anybody named a package like "Santa's::Helpers" before?
>> (That possibility having never crossed my mind)
>
>Mixing :: and ', no.  But Chris Nandor wrote the D'oh module, I
>believe.

I (kind of) like that fact that :: is translated to a /.  That way, I can
annoy people by doing stuff like

  use ::home::jeffp::my_modules::MyModule;

And they get puzzled.

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