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

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

At 08:27 PM 8/25/99 -0400, Keith Calvert Ivey wrote:
>Prakash Kailasa <PrakashK@bigfoot.com> wrote:
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> >     use constant e => 2, pi => 3;
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> > This really creates a list constant (2, 'pi', 3);
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> >     print '2pi3' ** 'pi'
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>Not quite.  You mean
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>       print ((2, 'pi', 3) ** 'pi');

No, actually, he's right... try doing:

print e;

He's correct. :)  Orwant was wrong (he said it would contain "2") but it 
really contains "2pi3"

D



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