Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g

[Simon Cozens]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:22:12PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> Will there be confusion with the _ that means "the file statted by
> the last -X test?"  I doubt it: file tests need to bind tighter than
> the concat op and the problem is over.

Hey, that would make "_ _ __" legal Perl code. Abigail, Abigail!

(I still prefer ~, but acknowledge that this is just bikeshed painting.)

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