shooting yourself in the foot ...
Tina Mueller
James Beard wrote:
> I was just trolling through some old jokes, and I came across
> http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~lziegler/ShootingInFoot.html
I know another version of this great text at
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jansro/ht/foot.html
> Does anyone have a "shooting yourself in the foot with perl"?
not yet, but what about this one:
Download the CPAN module Body::Foot and try
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Body::Foot qw(shoot);
shoot or die;
bye,
tina
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Jeff Zucker
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was just trolling through some old jokes, and I came across
> http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~lziegler/ShootingInFoot.html
>
Given Perl's love of symbols and brevity, and the sound of the way this
is pronounced, this is not even a one liner, it's a one character:
!
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James Beard
Hi all,
I was just trolling through some old jokes, and I came across
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~lziegler/ShootingInFoot.html
Does anyone have a "shooting yourself in the foot with perl"?
Later
James
The WebDragon
<jmb...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
I have something similar that's missing examples for
RPG:
CGI:
perl:
Tcl/Tk:
Python:
ActiveX:
AppleScript:
Visual Basic:
I got a REAL SERIOUS kick out of the Unix example on that page though
* Falling off the floor laughing :D
any help filling in the blanks would be appreciated though :)
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Ilmari Karonen
>I was just trolling through some old jokes, and I came across
>http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~lziegler/ShootingInFoot.html
>
>Does anyone have a "shooting yourself in the foot with perl"?
"You grab the gun and pull the trigger without aiming. The bullet
hits your foot, which is what Perl assumed you wanted."
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Tad McClellan
>In article <391A2049...@citr.com.au>, James Beard wrote:
>>I was just trolling through some old jokes, and I came across
>>http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~lziegler/ShootingInFoot.html
>>
>>Does anyone have a "shooting yourself in the foot with perl"?
>
>"You grab the gun and pull the trigger without aiming. The bullet
> hits your foot, which is what Perl assumed you wanted."
Make a trigger pulling motion, and Perl will:
autovivify a gun for you
initialize it with bullets
fire a bullet
move your foot so as to coincide with the bullet's trajectory
say "Ouch!" for you
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Andrew Johnson
Tad McClellan <ta...@metronet.com> wrote:
[snip]
>
> autovivify a gun for you
>
> initialize it with bullets
>
> fire a bullet
>
> move your foot so as to coincide with the bullet's trajectory
>
> say "Ouch!" for you
I hear that soon a new Foot::Intercede module will even step in
and take the bullet for you :-)
andrew
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Ilya Zakharevich
<ta...@metronet.com>],
who wrote in article <slrn8hlfpr...@magna.metronet.com>:
> Make a trigger pulling motion, and Perl will:
>
> autovivify a gun for you
>
> initialize it with bullets
>
> fire a bullet
>
> move your foot so as to coincide with the bullet's trajectory
This is not entirely correct. To be absolutely sure to do what you
mean, it would also
move feet of 3 your worst enemies at the same position
> say "Ouch!" for you
Due to a historical feature, it would not say "Ouch!" for *them*.
The discussion whether to consider it a bug overloaded the mail
server, so a message with a patch to a bug in the above function
was missed. Due to this bug, Perl would fry a bullet instead of
firing it.
Ilya
Tad McClellan
>In article <slrn8hlfpr...@magna.metronet.com>,
> Tad McClellan <ta...@metronet.com> wrote:
>[snip]
>>
>> autovivify a gun for you
>>
>> initialize it with bullets
>>
>> fire a bullet
>>
>> move your foot so as to coincide with the bullet's trajectory
>>
>
>I hear that soon a new Foot::Intercede module will even step in
>and take the bullet for you :-)
We can do without the namespace pollution.
There are already lots of those Foot::* modules planned,
Foot::MouthInsert (I expect I'll find lots of use for that one)
Foot::Athlete's (boo to those 3-level hierarchies and
one-character names...)
Foot::Bone::Connected::To::Ankle::Bone
Foot::Ball (DWIMs between pointy-ended ball and soccer varieties
based on locale)
Foot::Print
It more correctly belongs in the Secret::Service module.
heh, heh
Andrew Johnson
Tad McClellan <ta...@metronet.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2000 16:55:01 GMT, Andrew Johnson <andrew-...@home.com> wrote:
> >
> >I hear that soon a new Foot::Intercede module will even step in
> >and take the bullet for you :-)
>
>
> We can do without the namespace pollution.
>
> There are already lots of those Foot::* modules planned,
[snip]
> It more correctly belongs in the Secret::Service module.
your points are well taken -- however, it should probably be a pragma
anyway:
use foot 'intercede';
This won't further pollute the Foot:: namespace and still allows for
the 'step in' to take the bullet pun.
regards,
andrew (never underestimate the value of a stupid pun).
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Andrews
>
>Make a trigger pulling motion, and Perl will:
>
> autovivify a gun for you
>
> initialize it with bullets
>
> fire a bullet
>
> move your foot so as to coincide with the bullet's trajectory
>
> say "Ouch!" for you
>
And Tom Christiansen says, "you should've used strict and -w !"
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Roman Stawski
>
> Foot::Ball (DWIMs between pointy-ended ball and soccer varieties
> based on locale)
>
Can't DWIM this everywhere... you couldn't necessarily distinguish
between a preference for rugby football or soccer from the locale.
Hmmm, perhaps the locale should be extended in order to handle this...
after all this is vital in many production systems.
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Peter Heslin
>On 11 May 2000 09:10:45 GMT, Ilmari Karonen <il...@sci.invalid> wrote:
>>In article <391A2049...@citr.com.au>, James Beard wrote:
>>>I was just trolling through some old jokes, and I came across
>>>http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~lziegler/ShootingInFoot.html
>>>
>>>Does anyone have a "shooting yourself in the foot with perl"?
>>
>>"You grab the gun and pull the trigger without aiming. The bullet
>> hits your foot, which is what Perl assumed you wanted."
>
>
>
> autovivify a gun for you
>
> initialize it with bullets
>
> fire a bullet
>
> move your foot so as to coincide with the bullet's trajectory
>
> say "Ouch!" for you
Excellent! Here is a small modification:
Make a trigger pulling motion, and Perl will autovivify a gun for you,
initialize it with bullets, fire a bullet ... and shoot you in the head --
because `head' is the default operand for that function and you didn't
specify another.
Peter
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Craig Berry
: >Does anyone have a "shooting yourself in the foot with perl"?
:
: "You grab the gun and pull the trigger without aiming. The bullet
: hits your foot, which is what Perl assumed you wanted."
*applause* That gets my vote.
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Csaba Raduly
following message originated from p...@no.spam (Peter Heslin) was
reported as containing signs of intelligence:
>On Thu, 11 May 2000 10:10:03 -0400, Tad McClellan
[snip]
>
>Make a trigger pulling motion, and Perl will autovivify a gun for
>you, initialize it with bullets, fire a bullet ... and shoot you in
>the head -- because `head' is the default operand for that function
>and you didn't specify another.
>
>Peter
>
I think you're wrong here. You are "shooting yourself *in the foot*",
so there's yer operand :-) If you wanted to "shoot yourself" then yes,
the head is the default operand. All working as expected.
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