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

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 05:40:46PM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> At 08:27 PM 8/25/99 -0400, Keith Calvert Ivey wrote:
> >Prakash Kailasa <PrakashK@bigfoot.com> wrote:
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> > > It prints 1.
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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 e ** pi;
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> > >     print '2pi3' ** 'pi'
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> >Not quite.  You mean
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> >       print ((2, 'pi', 3) ** 'pi');
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> No, actually, he's right... try doing:
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> print e;
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> He's correct. :)  Orwant was wrong (he said it would contain "2") but it 
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HINT: A sequence of comma-seperated values in scalar context does _not_
evaluate to a string concatenation of all the values.

print scalar(e);

Ronald

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