From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-01-01T10:44:20+09:00
Subject: Re: About Steve Yegge's 'Opinions considered harmful' post

On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:41:24AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> They are simply "sub-languages" that every general-purpose language must 
> contain to support the two main low-level uses of computers, number 
> crunching and text processing. They are the DNA of computing, as it 
> were. Still, I'd love to see a more elegant way to do string processing 
> than something like Perl's
> 
>     $_ =~ s/^\[.+\] //g;

. . . use the $_ implicitly?

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Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

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