----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Cozens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: backticks


> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Sherman) writes:
> >         $ find . -name \*.pl | wc -l
> >             330
> >         $ find . -name \*.pl -exec grep -hlE 'qx|`|`|readpipe' {} \; |
wc -l
> >             123
> >
> > `` gets used an awful lot
>
> But that's in Perl 5, which is a glue language.
>

   And Perl 6 isn't?  I use backticks quite a bit in Perl, and I don't see
that changing if I upgrade to Perl 6.

Joe Gottman


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