Perl is worse!

[Grant Edwards]

In article <8lrt2h013fp at news2.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli wrote:
>
>> whereas 1 + "foo" is meaningless to almost everyone except Perl coders.
>
>No way -- it's perfectly valid in C, too, except that there it means the
>constant-string "oo".  Really, truly, X my heart, I kid you not, check it
>out if you don't believe me (I wouldn't blame you for disbelieving this!).

I would assert that although 1 + "foo" is meaningful to the C
_compiler_, it is still meaningless to almost "everyone" (as in
people) except Perl coders, and probably meaningless to most of
them as well.

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