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Article #4354Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
From: Malcolm Beattie
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:53
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:53
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In article <4foidd$sbg@cnn.princeton.edu>, Tim Hollebeek <tim@franck> wrote:
>John Viega (jtv2j@mamba.cs.virginia.edu) wrote:
> E.g. I think $_ is one of the more powerful
>concepts I've seen in a predominantly string processing language; on
>the other hand I'd wish it's name were distinguishable from line noise.
In that case, put
use English;
at the top of your program and then you can refer to it as $ARG.
See perlvar(1) for details.
--Malcolm
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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Oxford University Computing Services
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sable.ox.ac.uk!mbeattie From: mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C Date: 16 Feb 1996 10:53:42 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Message-ID: <4g1nnm$fil@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com> <4e54vc$7sk@orac.mon.rnb.com> <JTV2J.96Feb12141346@mamba.cs.virginia.edu> <4foidd$sbg@cnn.princeton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk