On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:50:51PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: > Several perl ports, and at least one book, use a "shiny ball" as a > symbol. > It took me a bit of thinking before I realized what this "shiny ball" > represents. Odd. Beginning Perl was going to use a blown-up microscope slide of a grain of sand - the beginnings of a pearl. Of course, nobody would have got it, so we went with a cat instead, which is even more oblique. -- You're never alone with a news spool.
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