SPUG:WMD as I see it

[ced at carios2.ca.boeing.com]

> Funny, I guess I'd have done it the other way... advise the use of
> ()'s to avoid operator precedence issues.  What's your rationale?
> With ()'s there's no need to mention precedence.

Or send in the Deparse squad:  

  perl -MO=Deparse -le 'print substr $foo,0,16,"\n"'

  print substr($foo, 0, 16, "\n");

  -e syntax OK

you can catch a few WMD's hiding in the dunes... 

Rgds,
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Charles DeRykus