[Cologne-pm] Fwd: <fwp@simon-cozens.org> Fun with Perl, for a change
A. Pagaltzis
pagaltzis at gmx.de
Thu Apr 10 13:22:27 CDT 2003
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> From: Simon Cozens <fwp at simon-cozens.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:47:19 +0100
> To: fwp at perl.org
> Subject: Fun with Perl, for a change
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> Rob Dixon:
> > Can somebody suggest how I might resolve the following?
> > If I make a GET request to a server with a URL like
> > http::/ww.domain.com/path/path/name
> > [... ordinary programming question ...]
>
> I must be on the wrong list. See, I thought this was fun-with-perl, and
> boring programming questions just aren't fun. Even so, we've had nothing but
> this sort of thing for the past two months or so. I suggest we have some more
> fun.
>
> Here's a piece of fun I came up with the other day. Who can work out how it
> works?
>
> use Ruby;
>
> $x = 10;
> print $x; # 10
> $x++;
> $x.puts; # 11
> $x.class.puts; # Fixnum
> $x.class.class.puts; # Class
>
> $x->upto(20, sub { $_.puts }); # 11, 12, 13, .. 20
>
> $y = "Hello, world";
> $y->puts; # Hello, world
> $y.class.puts; # String
> $y->length.puts; # 12
>
> No source filters, XS or any other Deep Magic is involved. It's all pure
> Perl.
>
> --
> <quidity> Sometimes it's better not to pedant.
>
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Gruss,
Aristoteles
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