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From: me@anywhere.EBay.Sun.COM (Wayne Thompson - IR Workstation Support SE)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl4.0 patch #1
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Date: 25 Apr 91 19:56:21 GMT
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In article <130398@uunet.UU.NET> you write:
|> In article <1991Apr25.182103.20549@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
|> ?From the keyboard of jew@rt.uucp (/87336):
|> ?:
|> ?:# define an array of months
|> ?:$Calendar{'Jan'} = '01';
|> ?:$Calendar{'Feb'} = '02';
|> ? .....
|> ?:$Calendar{'Dec'} = '12';
|> ?:
|> ?: What's the best way to define this array?
|> ?
|> ?How about:
|> ?
|> ? @Calendar{Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec} = ('01'..'12');
|> 
|> How about: @Calendar{Jan..Dec} = ('01'..'12');	# :-)

I like it! Mebbe we could get Larry to put this in 5.0!
How about: (aardvark..zymurgy)

|> 
|> I was all set to say: %Calendar = (Jan, '01', Feb, '02' .... Dec, '12');
|> but then I noticed the ellipsis.
|> -- 
|> 		[rbj@uunet 1] stty sane
|> 		unknown mode: sane