Perl bug File::Basename and Perl's nature

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Just bumped into another irresponsibility in perl.
[snip]
expletive Perl and Perl slinging morons.

Taking into account the aggressive and trollish tone of your post I’m
surprised by how polite the answers you got are. Nay, I found
interesting the OT about OSes and file versions: a proof that a bad
seed can give good fruits!

I don’t know why I’m taking care of answering you seriously, but if
you don’t like “Perl’s nature”, why are you bothering with it in the
first place? If you can’t stand its real/presumed *nix-isms, why are
you using it?

Also, you may have noticed it, but this is a discussion group about
Perl and people here is highly likely to be fond of Perl, appreciate
its “nature” and so on… so what did you expect to receive as an
answer to your post?

What do you gain in particular by criticizing an excellently and
clearly written piece of documentation (of an useful package!), by
exposing your failing to understand it because of your stupidity and
ignorance about a basic concept of the language like “pattern”?

you’ll see that it shouldn’t be so. AND, the writting as usuall is
fantastic incompetent. To illustrate, i quote:

Haha, thanks! I’ll make that a .sig!

Michele

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On 24 Jan 2004 21:31:36 -0800, xah@xahlee.org (Xah Lee) wrote:

This prints: Just another Perl hacker,

seek DATA,15,0 and print q… ;
END

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No it’s not. This is a newsgroup about Ruby. And that’s a newsgroup
about Python. And that over there’s a newsgroup about Scheme.

Only one of these groups is actually about Perl, so I’ve set the
followups there. The troll is actually on-topic there. Please keep
your replies there, too.

Joe

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In article tmqa10d6a542ma6k1ao6tnupvj0gbtser7@4ax.com, Michele Dondi wrote:

Also, you may have noticed it, but this is a discussion group about
Perl and people here is highly likely to be fond of Perl, appreciate
its “nature” and so on… so what did you expect to receive as an
answer to your post?

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[OT, slightly edited]

you’ll see that it shouldn’t be so. AND, the writting as usuall is
fantastic incompetent. To illustrate, i quote:

Haha, thanks! I’ll make that a .sig!

I guess it is fair to point out my own errors:

Also, you may have noticed it, but this is a discussion group about
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This should be “you may not have noticed it”.

Perl and people here is highly likely to be fond of Perl, appreciate
^^

are

Michele

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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:45:19 +0100, I wrote:

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“Joe Mason” joe@notcharles.ca wrote in message
news:slrnc18r49.14j.joe@gate.notcharles.ca…

In article tmqa10d6a542ma6k1ao6tnupvj0gbtser7@4ax.com, Michele Dondi
wrote:

Also, you may have noticed it, but this is a discussion group about
Perl and people here is highly likely to be fond of Perl, appreciate
its “nature” and so on… so what did you expect to receive as an
answer to your post?

No it’s not. This is a newsgroup about Ruby. And that’s a newsgroup
about Python. And that over there’s a newsgroup about Scheme.

Only one of these groups is actually about Perl, so I’ve set the
followups there. The troll is actually on-topic there. Please keep
your replies there, too.

Nice of you to spam all the newsgroups yet again with this useless reply…

Matt