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in reply to Another 'ode to backslash' ;-)

I liked it! Less is more... but in this case more is more, too. It relies for its aesthetic impact on the overwhelming preponderance of backslashes relative to anything else, and for that reason I might have been inclined to use
print chr length $_ for @a;
at the end. Or even... hold on to your hats, I'm going to repost the WHOLE THING because IT'S THERE...
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§ George Sherston