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As an old Perl programmer, I knew immediately what the /o would do. ;-)
by cbsmith 1y ago
As an old Perl programmer, I knew immediately what the /o would do. ;-)
- Amorymeltzer 1y agoI've always loved the recent[1] summary from `perlre`: >o - pretend to optimize your code, but actually introduce bugs 1: I still think of it as a relatively new change, but it's from 2013: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/7cf040c1f649790a4040aec47e47b4ce8b378728 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/7cf040c1f649790a4040aec...>
- kstrauser 1y agoIt's older than that. The article links to this conversation about it in 2003: https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=256053 https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=256053