crypt() question

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Mike Starke on 11/14/2002 20:40 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ /_
\_ /_Just for future reference, I would really appreciate it if you told us 
\_ /_what was happening.  You got me psyched up about a problem (big-endian 
\_ /_vs. little-endian, different salt accidentally used, etc.), but there 
\_ /_is no conclusion. ;-)
\_ 
\_ Sorry. I read the salt as "aa" rather than "$aa". A grep for "$aa"
\_ yielded the correct salt to use. 
\_ 
\_ What was someone thinking when assigning a variable as "$aa" ?

they missed the 

use ProgrammingStyle::Good;

lecture

:-)

David