Re: [Fun With Perl] What does this do? (SPOILERS)

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 01:08:20AM -0400, mjd-list-fwp@plover.com wrote:
> 
> > Ok, so now I know what this does, will someone explain what is going on
> > here?
> 
> * * * SPOILERS * * * 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> OK, the example was
> 
> 	print "\L\uHELLO, \uWORLD!\n";
> 
> which prints
> 	           Hello, world!
> 
> Everyone who answered was surprised by something about this, although
> not everyone was surpseid by the same things.  Some people were
> suprised that the H was capital, and others were surprised that the w
> was lowercase.

Hmm, the message I have reads:

      print "\L\uHELLO, WORLD\E.\n";

without the second \u.  So anyone who was surprised that the w was
lowercase must not have gotten the same email I did!

Ronald

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