Given Perl v5.8.0, stable version at Sep 19 2002 00:33:39, the following
are all valid Perl expressions:
3 * 9
3 ** 9
3 * * 9
3 * * * * 9
3 ** * 9
3 ** * * 9
3 ** * * * 9
3 ** * * * * 9
3 * * *
The following is not:
3 * * * 9
Of course this is a very ed up thing to try, don't ask me why I
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:14:44AM +, Shevek wrote:
Given Perl v5.8.0, stable version at Sep 19 2002 00:33:39, the following
are all valid Perl expressions:
3 * 9
3 ** 9
3 * * 9
3 * * * * 9
3 ** * 9
3 ** * * 9
3 ** * * * 9
3 ** * * * * 9
3 * * *
The following is not:
3 * * *
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:34:53AM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
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And the reason I know all this - blame Abigail.
(a sig with ** something which has the value 1. ie 0 ** 0, which perl is
treating as 1. I don't know enough serious maths to know if 0 ** 0
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:49:03PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul I am also amused and puzzled at the people writing huge tracts on why
Paul PHP is crap while not at the same time acknowledging there are vastly
Paul more websites
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:44:00AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
According to a Netcraft survey published in April 2002, PHP is now
being used by over 24% of the sites on the Internet. Of the 37.6 million
web sites reported worldwide
(http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/index-200204.html), PHP is
On 04/11/02 00:44 +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I dunno, in light of reports like the one on LWN I'm struggling to see
this.
PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as Web's #1 Server-side Scripting
Language: http://lwn.net/Articles/1433/
According to a Netcraft survey published in April 2002, PHP
