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- From: mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 10:53:42 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- References: <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com> <4e54vc$7sk@orac.mon.rnb.com> <JTV2J.96Feb12141346@mamba.cs.virginia.edu> <4foidd$sbg@cnn.princeton.edu>
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- In article <4foidd$sbg@cnn.princeton.edu>, Tim Hollebeek <tim@franck> wrote:
- >John Viega (jtv2j@mamba.cs.virginia.edu) wrote:
- > E.g. I think $_ is one of the more powerful
- >concepts I've seen in a predominantly string processing language; on
- >the other hand I'd wish it's name were distinguishable from line noise.
-
- In that case, put
- use English;
- at the top of your program and then you can refer to it as $ARG.
- See perlvar(1) for details.
-
- --Malcolm
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- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
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