On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:35:39PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: [...] > Like "*x" for indirection. Even Dennis agrees that was a mistake. He said > that by the time he noticed it there were three sites using "C" so they > thought it was probably too late to fix it.
I heard the "there were three sites using it" story about why the precedence of && and || are wrong. Trust Perl to come up with a rather special way of fixing *that* one.