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

[Ariel Scolnicov <ariels@compugen.co.il>]

mjd-list-fwp@plover.com writes:

> Some time ago I was surprised by this.  See if you can guess what it
> prints *before* you try it out.
> 
>         print "\L\uHELLO, WORLD\E.\n";

OK, I failed.

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> If you're not surprised, you're either missing something important or
> you're a toke.c expert.  (Or you've seen it before.)

Is it an evaluation order thing?  Or am I _still_ missing something
important?

Interestingly (but hopefully not because I'm missing something),
"\L\UHELLO, WORLD\E.\n" is a syntax error.

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