----- 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