From: Stefano Taschini <taschini.mlist@...>
Date: 2006-04-24T00:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Text Munger (#76): A solution

You are absolutely right, of course.

I hope that my mistake did not distract anybody from the point I was
trying to make.

  Stefano


On 23/04/06, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote:
> >>>>> "S" == Stefano Taschini <taschini.mlist@gmail.com> writes:
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> S> I might have written lines 10 and 11 together as
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> S> $1 + $2.scan(Letter).sort_by{rand}.join})
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> S> but you don't have to be a C programmer to understand that using
> S> global variables together with functions that alter them within two
> S> sequence points is a bad idea
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>  $~ is not a global variable : it's a local and thread-local variable (like
>  $_)
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>  $1 ($2, ...) make reference to the first (second, ...) substring matched.
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> Guy Decoux
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