Re: [FWP] Re: PerlOS

["Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>]

> On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:07:55AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
>> > @s = ("fate", "anoints", "idle", "coders"); @a = ("kill", "apropos",
>> > "pico", "ispell");print join(' ', ($s[0]..$a[0])[83813],
>> > ($s[1]..$a[1])[188889], ($s[2]..$a[2])[123871],
>> > ($s[3]..$a[3])[52995357]);
>
> That is really, truly horrible. It runs out of memory on my 288Mb machine.
> I assume that it prints `whfg nabgure crey unpxre | rot13`...
>
> And is there a sensible use for ".."?

Thank god!  Now I don't feel so bad...  I was wondering why my E3000 was
displaying 'Out of Memory!' when I have 256MB and 256MB of swap  - watched
both go into zero available land each time I ran that blasted thing.

Which wasn't too often...   =)

(I was thinking it was some weird pointer,
but does perl even have pointers?)

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