use Perl

• vi vi vi strings (Score:2)

  by nicholas (3034)

  V-strings were for versions, and they were bad enough. For this we'd need vi strings, to hold complex version numbers. Pain squared. This way lies madness. We are doomed, I tell you, doomed:
  
  perl -M5.006 -le 'print v54.54.54'
  • Re:vi vi vi strings (Score:2)

    by jmm (276)

    Yes, let's do it. That'll leave those poor emacs bigots sobbering in their beer.
    • Re:vi vi vi strings (Score:2)

      by jmm (276)

      s
      {sobbering}
      {qw( slobbering sobering sobbing ) [ rand(3) ]}
      e;
  • Re:vi vi vi strings (Score:2)

    by jhi (318)

    But the cool part is that if we make a really bad release we just then need to make two imaginary orthogonal releases and we can TURN BACK TIME!
    
    • Re:vi vi vi strings (Score:2)

      by jdavidb (1361)

      Damian can help you with that, if you can stretch a black hole out long enough.

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      • Re:vi vi vi strings (Score:2)

        by rafael (2125)

        You forgot that 'orthogonal' is not a perl word.
    • Re:vi vi vi strings (Score:2)

      by jdavidb (1361)

      Be sure to see rafael's response to my post. ;)

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers