Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> ""Mr" == "Mr Shawn H Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> "Mr> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 21:30 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>> Eh? My question has *nothing* to do with my solution. My question
>>> has to do with the original question.
>
> "Mr> And my question is why isn't these abilities of glob described in
> "Mr> perldoc?
>
> You should treat this "feature" of glob the same way you treat:
>
> my $foo if 0;
>
> and those stupid:
>
> perl -e ' ... }{ ...'
>
> tricks, as in, it works for now, but I wouldn't promise it in the future.
>
> As in, my answer started with a joke. Hence the smiley. But I did have a
> puzzling question about this recurring need for "all combinations" and always
> stated rather abstractly, without the real-world need backing it up.
I agree, and Mark Jason Dominus says in his book:
> It's not completely clear to me why this is useful. Last time it came up in
> the newsgroup, I asked the poster, and he explained that he was trying to
> generate a name for a new product by assembling short phrases or syllables
> into different orders. Ragardless of whether this is a good idea, it does
> seem to be something people want to do.
What are the real-world problems that are solved using a list of combinations of
sets of items?
Rob
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