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

From:
simon
Date:
February 11, 2000 02:30
Subject:
Re: use octets; and "escaping the piranha's"
Message ID:
slrn8a7p51.2ch.simon@othersideofthe.earth.li
Matthias Urlichs (lists.p5p):
>Majordomo...
>It _is_ broken.

It works. You lose.

Now, can we start being descriptive computer linguists instead of
prescriptive ones? We support Perl 4 and before not because we think
it's the best solution, but because it's what people use.

-- 
Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.

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