Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Carrera of "Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:20:33 +0100." > For amusement, below I include the same program > in FORTRAN II and Fortran 90. That was delightful -- thanks! --tom

Re: the file slurping is not working

Larry wrote: » Indeed, that preference is why Perl 6 can (we hope) get away with » autochomping, where Perl 5 can't (as easily). Or more accurately, » we choose not to special-case "while (<>)" as Perl 5 does (because » even Perl 5 has difficulties with files that are accidentally » "autochomped"