Re: $.:

On Feb 26, 1:34 pm, t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Phoenix) wrote:
On 2/26/07, Matt Herzog <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What does $.: mean?

I'll take a crack at this.

o The One True Name of God, expressed in ASCII
o An emoticon meaning "tragic stapler accident"
o Perl's $. variable followed by a colon

Just in case it's the last one, the perlvar manpage may help. If it's
one of the others, you're on your own.

I thought it was braille for something worth 'j' dollars...

-jp


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