Re: [FWP] Re: [Silly Fun WP] Perl error messages

[John Carter <john@dwaf-hri.pwv.gov.za>]

On 13 Jul 1999, Ariel Scolnicov wrote:

> I dunno about the rest.  Does looking at the source constitute
> cheating?

No. But probably does constitute a huge and frivolous waste of time on
a silly idea.

The idea is not merely to trigger them, but to trigger them in a
humourous fashion. eg...
  perl -e '$r=\"John";$r->answer_prayer'

    or

  perl -e '1 computer'

    resulting in...

  (Missing operator before computer?)


Maybe the first challenge should be to trigger 

"%s found where operator expected"

With %s replaced by "idiot".

Hmm. Maybe looking at the source would consume less time on the silly
idea than doing it empirically, but I'm certainly not going to d/load
the source to do so.

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