Re: [FWP] Is this fun? What's going on?

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 17:17 -0700 8/5/99, Vicki Brown wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> foreach (@INC) {
>   print
>   print "\n"
> }
>
>
> The results are not what I expected...

At 17:31 -0700 8/5/99, lr@hpl.hp.com wrote:
> Why not?  You are telling it to print the value of printing a newline.

At 20:31 -0400 8/5/99, Michael Assels wrote:
> ;
> ;-)

At 17:52 -0700 8/5/99, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> The results are exactly what I expected.

At 21:28 -0400 8/5/99, Rich Bowen wrote:
> Cute. Looks like the sort of thing that I'd get turned in by a student,
> and stare at for hours trying to figure out what was going wrong!



Some of you are losing your sense of silliness... some of you "got it".
This isn't c.l.p.-mod it's fwp. The results are perhaps what you expected
if you planned it that way...   But put yourself in the position of not
having planned it. Hint - I was expecting a syntax error. Specifically, I
was tracking down a problem that required me to need to generate at least
one syntax error, and it seemed the simplest way to do that would be to
take out a semicolon.  It was the wrong semicolon :-)
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