Re: (jptxs)Re: Perl is psychic?!

by MrNobo1024 (Hermit)

on Mar 06, 2001 at 05:07 UTC ( #62401=note: print w/ replies, xml )

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Yes, but Perl dosen't set $& if you don't use it, and it was impossible to know that it would be used...

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Re (tilly) 3: Perl is psychic?! by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 06, 2001 at 06:50 UTC
Whoever voted down the above node completely missed the point. MrNobo1024 is completely correct in saying that if Perl worked as documented as far back as, say, Camel 2 then it should not have had enough information to calculate $&.	[reply]

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