On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> I thought Perl had an expression optimizer that'd make that -(-...) go away,
> but I guess not..:o)
That might work for numeric ... . Try to guess what
perl -e 'print -(-"foo")'
before you run it then s/foo/1/ .
Robert
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