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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 5.8.5 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:21:47 +0100 From: Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
longbow.In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing
sites. Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage
discourage farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into
the burial grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian
poetry of T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
(From Wikipedia)
http://opensource.fotango.com/~nclark/perl-5.8.5.tar.bz2
(or s/bz2$/gz/ if you really want a 25% larger download.)
coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.5.tar.bz2
md5sums are
9db6be76aa275f415d75c224ad1d4029 perl-5.8.5.tar.bz2 49baa8d7d29b4a9713c06edeb81e6b1b perl-5.8.5.tar.gz
A use.perl announcement will follow once the tarballs have had time to propagate.
Nicholas Clark
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