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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!convex!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Using $*, but pattern doesn't match
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.014229.15482@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:42:29 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <120@eiffel.eiffel.com> <1992Aug25.214517.555@news.eng.convex.com> <121@eiffel.eiffel.com>
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- From the keyboard of ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi):
- :> Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
- :> --Larry Wall in <2969@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
- :
- :Your quote fits perfectly. Do you have an intelligent signature daemon
- :behind your ~/.signature named pipe ? :-)
-
- Maybe, but if so, the question then becomes whether the demon is a
- fallen one or not. :-)
-
- Really, it happens all the time. Now maybe it's just because I send out
- so much mail and news articles that occasionally it's bound to appear to
- have special relevance (and certainly my comp.lang.perl selections differ
- from my alt.usage.english ones) but it occurs with such frequency that I
- have occasion to shake my head at least daily.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- "There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
- _Illusions_, Richard Bach
-