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Just another Perl shrine  Oh my God! Tie killed Perl!  by
Petruchio (Vicar) on Jan 14, 2002 at 22:09 UTC
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(scroll to the bottom for the code)  Cafeteria. Enter Chef,
boys.  Chef: Hello there, children!  The boys: Hey, Chef.  Chef:
How's it goin'?  The boys: Bad.  Chef: Why bad?  Petruchio: My
Perl script won't run right.  Chef: Oh, that's too bad. What's
wrong with it?  Perl: Mrgmrmph.  Petruchio: I think it's that
stupid tie.  Chef: Woah, hold on there, Petruchio! tye's a very
good coder, I'm sure he wouldn't...  Petruchio: Dude, not that
tye! You know, the tie that lets you disguise your own object as
an ordinary Perl variable, so you can use the nice syntax.
Perl: Mremrmrm  Chef: Oh, I see. Well, you know, children, when
I'm fixing one of my recipes, I like to reduce it to a minimal
test case. I replace as many variables as possible with
literals, remove subroutines so the test is s