On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:23:22PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>  On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:48:13 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:

>  

>  >> What about zero.

>  >

>  >No problem in Perl 6.

>  >

>  >    my $foo = %hash{foo} // 'some default';

>  

>  And nobody will ever confuse this operator with the "comment till end of

>  line" marker in C++, Java and Javascript, and many more I suppose.


Only people who are under the delusion that they're programming C++,
Java or Javascript instead of Perl.  But those people are already too
busy with Perl5, wondering what the funny looking /foo*/ comment is
all about. ;)


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<GuRuThuG>  make a channel called #Perl, and infest it with joking and 

	   fun.... it doesnt make alot of sense.