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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Platform information
- In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:40:53 GMT
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- Tom> == Tom Christiansen <Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>>
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- Tom> Yes, that would maybe be nice. If we use __ARCH__ then we'll
- Tom> be in trouble with byte-compiled code that gets moved around,
- Tom> but there's no real precedent for &ARCH either.
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- $^A perhaps? (Hey, wonder if assigning to this... hmm...)
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- #!/usr/bin/perl -- #-*-Perl-*-
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- # we do a lot of processing, so speed the machine up
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- $^A = 'cray';
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- $silly_suggestion++;
- __END__
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