No, I don't have any formal theory, any actual code, and much less
benchmarks to prove this, I'm just waving my hands to keep warm.
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Sentences long extremely and notation Polish reverse in writing about 
wrong is what?
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Well, as soon as I fix UTF-8 character classes, but that's
another story to scare small children with.
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'Milking a dromedary -- a highly intelligent and not always
good-natured beast -- is, she confesses, "a process of negotiation."'
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A vendor abandoning a platform does not mean we have to follow
the suit (if anything, we might continue the support just out of
spite...)
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Alan, will you stop this moment dragging people back from the slave pits
I have so generously prepared for them :-)
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> Don't fret too much over it just yet, I was merely issuing a heads up.
fret fret fret.  Isn't that what pumpkings are more or less supposed to do?
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Hey, we are Perl programmers, we do only honorable errors.
It's the programmers of other languages who get crucified :-)
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Damian's been giving people ideas again, that shameless Ozzie.
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Uh-oh, I smell an arbitrary number. 
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I can let you in to the ultimate locale secret:

         Avoid.
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open my $fh, "< :LATIN-0", FABRICATIDIEMPVNC or
        dulce_et_decorum_est_pro_patria_mori $!;
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I'm almost tempted to paraphrase Felix Gallo by saying: "Oh my goodness!
Someone left the NickClarkulator on over the weekend!" :-)
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Disclaimer: I work at the reg*.{[hc],sym} like a novice alchemist:
I pour the blue liquid on the red liquid.  If it doesn't blow up on my
face, I proceed to turn up the flame under the blue liquid, and so on.
I have very little idea of what I am really doing, I just like the
pretty colors :-)
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"I have this wonderful patch that fixes all the bugs for ever in Perl
but unfortunately the margin of this monitor is too narrow to include
it."
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> I meant ?:, not :? and ??, of course.
Fooled me :-) Maybe the Perlian sentence modifier style has crept into
your C...?  I know that I often stare at the C compiler moaning about
my perfectly sensible 'print "$p\n";'...
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Your orthogonal is orthogonal to my orthogonal.
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Your orthogonal is orthogonal to my orthogonal... Now, can we, orthogonally, 
get back from semantics and back to doing horribly orthogonal things to the 
regex engine...? :-)
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... if so far I had been happily bouncing around the strange lands of
Reg-Ex and shouting back "Dragons?  What dragons?" to people frantically
waving their hands (safely beyond the borders, funny that)... now I can
attest to nasty monsters being fully alive, and full of flame... 
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I'm currently dodging core dumps falling from the sky, but I think
I'm running in generally right direction...
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Now, stepping off my pedestal, I would file an angry bug report on all
the examples Abigal just demonstrated, but I have this sinking feeling
of just who would have to fix them :-)
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Simon, meet Peter.  Peter, meet Simon.  Peter, Simon, meet a shared
goal. You may engage your keyboard and brain now.
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It's supposed to become standard.  (Nick, stop waving your hands
so frantically :-)
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Looks good enough for me.  Then again, I found haggis to be edible :-)
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The below seems to fix the bug, just don't ask me why...
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[The semantics] are about as clear as mercury, and as about as healthy and
easy to pin down too.
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When you have no nails your hammer grows restless, and you begin
to throw sideways glances at screws and pieces of string.
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If among you you can't get at least a design done, we should forget
about I/O disciplines and I should retire to the Tassili-in-Aijer
mountains in Sahara as a camel herder :-)
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&more_coffee for 1..3;
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Okay, enough of this idle misguided thought of mine, these are not the
droids you are looking for.
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Hey, now you've made me feel like a cold heartless bastard :-)
I'd prefer an old forgetful fool, though.
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> I wouldn't call that a fix, I would call it a work-around.

Please show us what a fix looks like, then...? :-)
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(looking at the mirror)
- Jarkko, did you run vms/vms_yfix.pl after mucking with perly.[hc]?
(looking at own toes)
- Did you or did you not?
(picking own nose, still staring at own toes)
- Awww, okay, you did not.
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This message will self-destruct in a few minutes by being dragged into
an endless discussion thread about what features to include.
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> Let's talk about pseudo-hashes,
Yes.  They should die.  How's that for a polemic statement? :-)
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Somehow, strangely, this was already fixed...maybe I did it
subconsciously, maybe there are helpful little gnomes running around
in the repository and fixing bugs while we sleep, I don't know...
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> So, what happens first?

I pour myself a cup of strong coffee. :-)
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Thanks, applied!
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No point shaving in the morning if you are a kamikaze pilot?
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It's the dreaded ?? operator, run!
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I'm sorry but this is not portable to Mayan calendar in EBCDIC Amigas.
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(on Larry's "Apocalypse") "Me, I've been racking my brain to figure out
whether Damian is Famine, War, Plague, or Death..."