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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Frequently Asked Questions about Perl - with Answers [Monthly posting]
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.234402.18685@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 23:44:02 GMT
References: <1991Mar08.025232.21050@convex.com> <EMV.91Mar7231753@poe.aa.ox.com> <1991Mar08.131601.23812@convex.com> <590@sunny.ucdavis.edu>
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In-Reply-To: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)

In article <590@sunny.ucdavis.edu>, poage@sunny (Tom Poage) writes:
| How about \{nn} and ${nn} as an option?

Nopers.  \{ would be special then, contrary to the design that
backslash non-alphanum is non-special.  Don't break existing scripts.

But I do like the ${nn}... it seems non-ambiguous now.

print+(eval"'kerhacrl  Pehernott aJus'=~/".("(...)"x 8)."/")[7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0],","
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