Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: operl - an experimental object-oriented package for perl Message-ID: <123551@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 22 Feb 91 02:41:36 GMT References: Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 18 sakoh@sraco2.us.sra.co.jp (Hiroshi &) writes: > >Now we have an object-oriented perl! (please allow me to call it OPERL). >Does it sound funny or insane :-) ? Sounds Irish. >Distribution kit is uuencoded since operl.pl contains control characters. Why, pray tell, does source code contain unprintables? Like C and postscript, perl makes it possible to represent unprintables by using \ escapes. It is bad form to do otherwise. I invite you to recode and repost your submission. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane