Re^4: conditional self-execution

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An entire category of entities just for three pseudo-constants, for hysterical purposes thanks to C legacy. Yeah. I think that qualifies as a wart on the language.

. . . but I still do love my Perl so. Thanks again.

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Re^5: conditional self-execution by blazar (Canon) on Jan 29, 2008 at 09:59 UTC
I personally believe you may be glad to know -just for the record- that in full respect to the principle of least surprise, in Perl 6 "this kinda things" will actually be made regular variables of an appropriate namespace, with an appropriate sigil, and an appropriate twigil. `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l]

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