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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
- Subject: Re: Thanks to all of you that bought camel books!
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:22:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.160615.2054@cognos.com> alanm@cognos.com (Alan Myrvold) writes:
- : Plus, how long will Learning Perl exist before it is obsoleted by version 5
- : changes?
-
- The intent of Learning Perl is to teach a useful subset of Perl, and
- the intent of Perl 5 is not to remove the parts that people find useful.
-
- If you're looking for further reassurance, note that I only tweaked a
- couple of obscure things in the Perl 4 regression tests to get them to
- work with Perl 5. And I really don't think that Learning Perl is going
- to discuss the practice of doing "goto" into a "while (0)" loop, or
- intentionally writing syntactically incorrect evals to see which line
- number the error is reported on.
-
- That being said, I should point out that I may deprecate certain Perl4isms.
- But they'll still work in Perl 5.
-
- Larry
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