[PERL-QOTW-ADMIN] Why no quizzes this week?

Two reasons.  First, I was busy.

Second, I was disappointed that so few people were discussing these
quizzes on the -discuss list.  I usually suppose that interest on
-discuss is a barometer of the number of people who actually did the
quizzes.

I thought last week's intro quiz was unusually cool, and I was
disappointed that so few people seemed to have done it.  

Michael Toren's sample solution to the 'expert' quiz shows that it
doesn't have to be difficult to write a useful implementation of
'patch', and I was hoping that the space of possible versions would
have been more thoroughly explored.  Alas.

So I invite more people to submit sample solutions to these, which I
will write up on Monday.  Then on Wednesday I will send new quizzes.

In the meantime, if you want something else to think about, here's an
intermission quiz:

        People often suggest that Perl's '..' operator should be
        extended to count downwards instead of up.  Specifically, they
        say that if $a is greated than $b, then ($a..$b) should produce a
        list of numbers from $a down to $b.  At present, it just
        returns the empty list.

        Is this a good idea?  Why or why not?