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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: wow! (was Re: simple script to write a file core dumps, why?)
Keywords: perl, hpux 6.5, hp 9000/370, help
Message-ID: <15240@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 8 Mar 90 12:27:12 GMT
References: <257@cmic.UUCP> <7335@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <7335@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>Better yet, make wow upper case so that if I add a reserved word "wow"
>you don't have to rewrite your script.

I propose a reserved word "wow" which selects and executes one of
Randal's JAPH one-liners at random!

Unfortunately, knowing Randal, he would then need only terminate his
articles with

	wow;
	--
	Randal Schwartz...

as the shortest JAPH method yet!  But this would make 'wow' into a new
Randal one-liner.  So 'wow' might pick itself and there would be a
possibility of recursion error.

Well, back to my 'Perl in Perl' project... :-)

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