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pdcawley
Date:
July 10, 2002 21:55
Subject:
Re: Mutable vs immutable strings
Message ID:
84znwyx3t2.fsf@despairon.bofh.org.uk
Luke Palmer <fibonaci@babylonia.flatirons.org> writes:
> %MY is so ugly nobody will want to use it.

In the average case nobody is supposed to use it. %MY is there for
those rare occasions when you're writing a behaviour altering module
that needs to alter stuff in the caller. Which doesn't (or shouldn't)
happen that often.

-- 
Piers

   "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
    possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
         -- Jane Austen?


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