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Re: [FWP] Quine, ontology, and Perl



On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:18:15PM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:

> The subject of this message refers to W. V. Quine's essay "On What
> There Is" where he suggest the criterion by which "to be is to be the
> value of a variable". The above JAPH works by doing manipulation on
> the symbol table entry--the name, not the value--of a variable.

Along similar lines:

#!/usr/bin/sh -- chipmunk (aka Ronald J Kimball)
    perl -e'for (sort keys%main::) {print if $$_ eq 1}
        ' -s  --  -' Just'  -' another '  -'Perl '  -'hacker
' http://www.tiac.net/users/chipmunk/ [rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu]


Ronald

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