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Re: use octets; and "escaping the piranha's"

From:
Larry Wall
Date:
February 10, 2000 22:20
Subject:
Re: use octets; and "escaping the piranha's"
Message ID:
200002110617.WAA10275@kiev.wall.org
japhy@pobox.com writes:
: 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.

That's sick.  I love it.

Larry



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