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From:
Sean O'Rourke
Date:
July 28, 2008 14:27
Subject:
Re: Alarums and Excursions
Message ID:
m2k5f566p0.fsf@cs.ucsd.edu
Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> writes:
> On Monday 28 July 2008 18:08:41 Abigail wrote:
>> In fact, the fast
>> majority of the Perl programmers out there doesn't read any
>> mailinglist, nor do they participate in anyway in the "Perl
>> community". Only a tiny minority has code on CPAN.
>
> So we are back to guesswork. I'd venture that "the vast majority of Perl 
> programmers" doesn't know that using "<>" without -T is a security 
> problem. 

I'm just a single datapoint, but I find this feature useful, and
am hoping this whole thing ends up as just an endless mailing
list discussion.

Sean


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