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From: inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: s///e bizarreness
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.212657.29762@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 91 21:26:57 GMT
References: <1991Jan03.123139.13432@convex.com> <1991Jan3.232855.7457@NCoast.ORG> <10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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In article <10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In article <1991Jan3.232855.7457@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>: As quoted from <1991Jan03.123139.13432@convex.com> by tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen):
>: +---------------
>: | The really unexpected thing here is that /ee yields a double eval.  
>: +---------------
>: 
>: You can say *that* again!  I just about fell out of my chair when I saw the
>: "/ee" and its result.
>
>You think YOU were surprised!
>
>I just about broke my jaw on the keyboard.
>
>   --- explanation of how it works ---
>
>I think it's a new feature.  Don't tell anyone it was an accident.  :-)
>
>Hmm.  I wonder if the ii option should make it twice as case insensitive...
>
>Larry Wall


Yes! YESSSS!  Also, I need double magic ++ to increment by twos (+{3} for
threes?), lastlast to jump out of two loops, and, and...


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