On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:26:41AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
> Don't you think that bk should have some kind of credit?
Good point.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:36:01PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> depending on how flame retardant you feel, you might like to put in a
> disclaimer about the use of the word gay in this context.
>
> ho hum
But surely no-one could ever mistake something that grew out of good
natured banter for a serious position on Perls place in the world...
On second thought:
--- USIG.pm 2001/10/23 10:07:27 1.1
+++ USIG.pm 2001/10/23 13:25:40
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
package Acme::USIG;
-sub gay::is {}
+sub gay::is { "http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?form=4700"; }
sub cool::is { qw( vars subs refs ) }
1;
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
Tramples over the C<gay> and C<cool> namespaces - this may cause
problems should p5p ever choose to implement these for future pragmas.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+ use Acme::USIG;
+ system('lynx', '-dump', is gay);
=head1 AUTHOR
Though I did expect people would get that it was a gag by the context
(the Acme:: namespace) and then by the concerns about stealing the
pragma in time BUGS section.
No more code to the list, it's getting a bit chunky, track the
development of the code on that there interweb:
http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/lab/Acme-USIG/
And later on the CPAN, when I've wrestled a Makefile.PL together.
--
Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
