Rabid Wombat |

I’m a Perl coder. Sort of. I’m still learning. That’s why I search for syntax examples every so often. I’m looking for an explanation of how things worked. Well, recently I searched for “map $_ => $_” (without the quotes), some Perl syntax I’d seen written somewhere else. I was hoping to find some information about the “map” function, and how it would interpret that particular set of input.

The results were very disappointing. Live Search returned a map of Redmond (where I conducted my search), and offered nothing related to Perl syntax in its results. I shouldn’t be surprised, this has been a problem before.

Here’s what I got:

map $_ => $_

It looks like Live is completely ignoring special characters, and is using the presence of “map” in the query as its exclusive trigger to show instant answers. But of course, I didn’t search for “map” at all…

Google returned some Perl related results, although they weren’t entirely useful. Still, at least there my actual query hit the server.