On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:00:19PM -0500, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > On Dec 13, Ryan Fischer said: > > And it's not an obscure use NOR an abuse of the function. The fact that > tr/a-z// replaces the empty replacement list with a-z is SPECIFICALLY > documented, and the use of this for counting characters is SPECIFICALLY > suggested.
The fact that it is documented doesn't change that fact that it's obscure. (I wish more people understood that.) I suspect that many of the folks who frequent this list have been wearing their Perl blinders long enough that it doesn't just doesn't *seem* obscure anymore. Think back to when you were first learning Perl. Or regular expressions. They're documented but you still find yourself thinking "damn, this is obscure..." Are you wrong? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936
