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Re: Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tolerate the Dot

by frag (Hermit)
on Jul 16, 2001 at 01:28 UTC ( [id://96901]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tolerate the Dot
in thread Dots and cargo-cult programming

That's a good point. I'm so used to it by now that I haven't considered how weird it is to use '.' as concat. I think it's because I've grown to think of the Perl5 dot as like a decimal point, in that the two parts of the number have to be adjacent to each other.

-- Frag.

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