Migrating to perl?

Simon Callan simon at callan.demon.co.uk
Sat Jan 6 18:36:15 EST 2001


In message <slrn95f3g5.vnu.scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl>
          scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl (Remco Gerlich) wrote:

> Thomas A. Bryan <tbryan at python.net> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > That's funny.  Although there *is* more than one way to do this in
> > Python,  Python users don't seem to care for exercises in finding
> > and displaying  "neat tricks" in Python.  Most of the newsgroup
> > postings seem to be  discussion of usage of a particular module,
> > how the language (should)  work, and implementing a well-designed
> > class/component.
> > 
> > Of course, there was the one time that Gerrit claimed to have
> > ripped  off the open and close brace keys from his keyboard
> > because of his  zeal for Python.  I remember a long discussion
> > about how to slice and  index without brackets.  :)
> 
> And the answers that go like: 
> 
> "No, there's no way to do that."
> 
> (pause during which something horrible clicks in the posters' mind) 
> 
> "Actually, you *could* take the bytecodehacks module, a traceback
> from a dummy exception, 2cc of mouse blood, and a marshalled code
> object..."

You don't actually need the mouse blood - you can use an egg, but it
has to be a fresh egg.

Simon

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