Re: using wildcards with -e
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:30:13 +0000 (UTC)
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was NOT [per weedlist] sent to
Michele Dondi
<bik.mido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>], who wrote in article <kh1o83trejdccb8thli2tjg1smttk5b7m3@xxxxxxx>:
Because the behaviour is *not* factorized: had Perl aimed at blind
consistency, perhaps it would have had functions that always return a
list and lists coerced in scalar context would always evaluate to
their lengths. Instead the driving principle has always been that of
DWIM, and most often it has succeeded IMHO.
I'm afraid I must call this BS. ;-) ;-( The driving principle was
"graduate growth", and a lot of shortcomings just WERE NOT NOTICED
quick enough - and when ramifications were noticed, it was too late to
change things due to backward compatibility.
Hope this helps,
Ilya
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