Re: equivalent of perl $/

Aaron Watters (aaron@funcity.njit.edu)
Thu, 26 Jan 1995 13:18:56 GMT

In article <3g4jo6$6q4@staff.cs.su.oz.au> danny@cs.su.oz.au (Daniel Yee) writes:
>I haven't seen Perl 5; what has it stolen from Python?

All the OO stuff. I'm not an expert on it, but I made an assertion
like this in the perl newgroup ages ago, and no one contradicted me.
I suspect Python's OO system is still more flexible (eg, it's easy
to create/use a list containing basic numbers plus number-like classes without
difficulty in Python, but I think it's more problematic in perl) but
someone please correct me. Even if perl swallowed python whole,
python's core minimality and elegance would remain preferable in my
book, for larger projects at least. -a
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