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From:
David Nicol
Date:
July 30, 2008 11:32
Subject:
Re: Creative and *routine* use of so-called "magic" ARGV (was [perl #2783] Security of ARGV using 2-argument open)
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934f64a20807301132s316d03afkfaff002deaac26fb@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:

> I want to note that I'm not enamoured with the choice of `<<>>`
> as the operator's glyph, but I have no better proposal and I'm
> not overly invested in that bikeshed.

As the overcaffeinated fool who suggested that operator, in the ensuing
days I have longed for the opportunity to revise my proposed bikeshed color
to '>>>' which hopefully will provide neat symmetry with the proposed
'<<<TOKEN' which
might be just like '<<TOKEN' except strip leading indentation (like ksh's '<<-)'

anyway after learning of the possibility of altering the filenames as
tchrist has pointed out
and which used to be inthe faq before the 3-arg open craze, I no
longer think wide football
is a good idea, under any syntax. (has it been a straw man all along?)

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