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From:
Johan Vromans
Date:
October 7, 2012 13:44
Subject:
a2p/s2p
Message ID:
m28vbiqagj.fsf_-_@phoenix.squirrel.nl
Ralph Corderoy (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org> writes:

> [perl #115158] a2p wrongly considers string literal "0" is always false

I've been wondering for a long time now: Are a2p and s2p actually still
used? 

They made sense 20 years ago, when people were writin awk and sed
scripts and perl was a new and upcoming tool.

But are these tools still used today, to the extent that they should be
part of the perl core, instead of CPAN modules/tools?

-- Johan

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