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in thread Programs that write programs

<snark>

$ perl -e''
No code specified for -e.

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</snark> :)

Update: Hm, seems to work fine with a file:

$ perl -w /tmp/empty.pl

Update 2: Nevermind, moritz is a clever boy, and laziness (leaving out whitespace) is not always a virtue.

Update 3: I think I prefer the symmetry and perl purity of: echo -n | perl | perl | perl | echo -n

Good Day,
    Dean

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