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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:11PM (#50460966)
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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by xhrpost on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:47PM (#50461967)
So they might be valid older(<v5?) PHP scripts as well?
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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by Izkata on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:19AM (#50463691)
PHP 5 had unquoted strings, and it looks like 7 did as well, but not 8.
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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by asddubs on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:24AM (#50466735)
They were deprecated in php 7, but did work
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