Re: [FWP] From the Perl Conference 3.0 Perl quiz (1)

["Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>]

As an attendee (and a contestant) in the Perl Quiz Show, I can say this.. 
That code WILL compile, under the proper conditions.

1.) Name those conditions,
2.) WHY do those conditions work?



At 10:01 AM 8/25/99 -0700, Brad Greenlee wrote:
>I'm not sure I understand. Is that code supposed to run without errors? Call
>me (or my perl 5.005_03) crazy, but when I try to run that I get:
>
>Unmatched right bracket at ./mytest line 2, at end of line
>syntax error at ./mytest line 2, near "}"
>Execution of ./mytest aborted due to compilation errors.
>
>-b
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>
>To: <fwp@technofile.org>
>Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 09:49 AM
>Subject: [FWP] From the Perl Conference 3.0 Perl quiz (1)
>
>
> >If you're gonna reply with a spoiler, mark it a spoiler.
> >
> >If you were there, don't jump in so fast :-)
> >
> >Here's the code... this is it... just these two lines.
> >Why doesn't this generate a syntax error?
> >
> >    } BEGIN {
> >      @ARGV = <*m*>;
> >
> >Or, as Jon Orwant said - there were no modules in use, no other lines in
> >the script. A print statement inserted anywhere, before or after or between
> >these two lines would print.
> >
> >What _is_ the single unshown thing that makes this work without a syntax
> >error? (and how?)
> >
> >This amused me... (I amuse easily).
> >If you do put in those print statements,
> >
> >   print "hello, ";
> >   } BEGIN {
> >     @ARGV = <*m*>;
> >   print "world\n";
> >
> >what do you get? and why?
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