> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 11:52 -0700, Timothy Johnson wrote:
>> It's the Perl
>> equivalent of having to remember 'I before E except after C...'.
>
> '.. except where it's not.'
>
> E.g:
> height
> weight
> sex
>
> (OK, I included 'sex' just to get your attention.)
On some platforms:
perl -e 'while(<>){ print if /[^c]ei/ }' /usr/share/dict/words
Regarding Timothy's thoughts, I tend to believe perl wouldn't be as popular
if the "use strict" pragma defaulted to on. I don't code in C because it's
too hard to get all the little details right. Perl is very forgiving, and
for my needs it's perfect. I'm guessing there are a few others in the same
boat. =)
- B
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