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



On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 05:17:48PM -0700, Vicki Brown wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> foreach (@INC) {
>    print
>    print "\n"
> }
> 
> The results are not what I expected...

Missing semicolon after the first print --- what you have is equivalent to
foreach (@INC) {
	print print "\n"
}
which, as print "\n" always succeeds, prints 1 for each @INC.

It took me a while to see that too --- it looked too much like Python. :)

-- 

Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org

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