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From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: wishlist: current line number variable
Message-ID: <aq9sk3.kc9@wang.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 03:04:45 GMT
References: <1131@etnibsd.UUCP> <8812@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <15690@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <8815@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
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lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
> However, after the next patch you'll be able to
> run this article through perl -x and it will print out "howdy".

> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $_ = <STDIN>;
> print;
> __END__
> howdy

> Think a little about the possible implications of that.

Great!  This'll save ten lines out of my BASIC to PERL translator!

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Tom Fitzgerald   Wang Labs        fitz@wang.com
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:-), of course.