The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.