From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:16:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC3.5 05/12] send-email: Improve redability and error-handling in send_message's sendmail code
Message-ID: <76718490904190716u155f7f78ve78bfa61d3d1d468@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18071eea0904181917u7c7187bubc8fab6ede2d19ef@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/19 Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>:
>> However, I wonder if your comment is a veiled quip at my "Improve
>> redability" claim (which is also ironically unreadable). :-)
>
> More concerning is that it's a perl 5.10ism -- you cannot assume that
> perl 5.10 is installed on all platforms.  I really wouldn't use this
> construct.

Exactly. I started with perl4 (no really...), then moved away from
hard-core perl coding around 2000 and have been just a perl dabbler
since then. So I didn't recognize //, though I suspected it was a
newer construct. :-)

j.