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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: wow! (was Re: simple script to write a file core dumps, why?)
Keywords: perl, hpux 6.5, hp 9000/370, help
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.174614.2979@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 9 Mar 90 17:46:14 GMT
References: <257@cmic.UUCP> <7335@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <15240@bfmny0.UU.NET>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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In-Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)

In article <15240@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0 (Tom Neff) writes:
| 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.

Actually, I'd propose making the autodecrement magical, in that if it
is not preceeded or followed by an lvalue, it just prints "Just
another Perl hacker,".  Then, I wouldn't have to have *any* lines. :-)
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