[Mike Meyer]
> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there any possible sequence of bytes that will not be a valid
> > Perl expression or operator?
Perl has lots of syntax, and good warning facilities, it is not so bad.
> [...] TECO, where guessing what your name did as a command sequence
> was a popular past time?
Yes, this is much more likely to be meaningful! Yet, don't laugh at
this venerable editor. Remember that Emacs started as an *E*xtended set
of TECO *mac*ros, as its name still say. :-)
I once worked with a PL/I compiler (on a big IBM mainframe), which was
trying to be helpful by spitting pages of:
Error SUCH AND SUCH, assuming that THIS AND THIS was meant.
and continuing compilation nevertheless. It was a common joke to say
that PL/I would compile some random valid program out of any garbage!
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