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On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:19:01PM -0500, Steve Lane wrote: > Bernie Cosell wrote: > > So I tried to find something shorter and less obtrusive to > > 'scalarize' the arg. > > $ perl -le 'print ~~localtime' > Fri Mar 30 12:18:03 2001 Neat, but I wonder whether the peephole optimizer shouldn't optimize ~~ away. Would we lose any semantics that way? (I think the above would still work because optimization happens after context propagation.) -- Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle. -- Steven WrightThread Next