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		chromatic on Jan 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dots and Perl It may be less pretty but it works... The primary goal of the `...` feature was to make example code compile safely. (I implemented the feature in Perl 5.)

jerf on Jan 21, 2014 [–]

Oh, yes, of course it doesn't do that, but it's still a useful thing. It's so short it hardly seems worth talking about, but, hey, I went a long time without using such a simple technique myself, so it probably is.

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