Re: [FWP] From the Perl Conference 3.0 Perl quiz (2)

[Prakash Kailasa <PrakashK@bigfoot.com>]

Vicki Brown wrote:
> 
> If you're gonna reply with a spoiler, mark it a spoiler.
> 
> If you were there, don't jump in so fast :-)
> 
> What does this print? And why?
> 
>    use constant e => 2, pi => 3;
> 
>    print e ** pi;

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It prints 1.

    use constant e => 2, pi => 3;

This really creates a list constant (2, 'pi', 3);

    print e ** pi;

is really,

    print '2pi3' ** 'pi'

is really

    print 0 ** 0

is really

    print 1;


/prakash

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