worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (03/12/91)
It's sort of funny that the only arbitrary restriction in Perl is the number of parens in a regexp! Dale Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- It was peculiarly satisfying to watch the reactions at the truck stops along the way to this bunch of men with hippie long hair, biker leather jackets, and a nose ring who nonetheless were warm, intelligent, friendly and polite, and paid with credit cards - we blew all their possible-stereotype fuses.
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall) (03/12/91)
In article <1991Mar11.163317.22794@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> worley@compass.com writes:
: It's sort of funny that the only arbitrary restriction in Perl is the
: number of parens in a regexp!
I just hacked out that restriction. Turned out not to be as hard as I
expected.
Larry