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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 3655 Volume: 11
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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:09:05 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Sun, 1 Apr 2012 Volume: 11 Number: 3655
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Re: reason for local($_) ? (Seymour J.)
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:01:42 -0400
From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid>
Subject: Re: reason for local($_) ?
Message-Id: <4f75fb6b$9$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net>
In <86limkcwv6.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>, on 03/28/2012
at 01:07 PM, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) said:
>It's like all those crazy people who put "i" and "s" modifiers on
>*all* regex even if they aren't using any feature affected by it.
>Silly.
"Sometimes "crazy" is a synonym for "not in my tradition" and "silly"
is a synonym for "I don't understand".
Did you write APL in another life? Sometimes people use a particular
coding style to make it easier to modify the code in the future.
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