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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: shortest self-reproducing Perl program
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.163855.13099@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 21 Mar 90 16:38:55 GMT
References: <1990Mar20.203516.8429@iwarp.intel.com> <7490@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)

In article <7490@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax (Larry Wall) writes:
| Note the blank line at the end.  A not-so-obvious improvement is that
| the last semicolon is now optional.  (For shame!  You of all people
| should have thought of this one, Randal!)

I thought that was just for 'eval' (because of my original request).

Does that mean the book is off? :-)

$_="7072696e7420274a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c206861636b65722c27";
s/../pack('C',hex($&))/eg; eval;
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