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

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 23:47 -0400 08/25/1999, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>
>I don't think that's quite what Jon said.  There _were_ other lines in the
>script -- otherwise it wouldn't have done anything useful.

Useful?? Who said anything about usefulness? :*)

> Rather, the
>code shown was the _last two lines_ of the script.

It certainly coulda been. But it could also be the only lines in the
script. Or the first two.  And if it's only the last two we don't know what
the others are. (we don't care, really... unless we aren't careful, but
they could be the print statements I showed in the second half...)

It's a script. It's not data. It doesn't follow an __END__ or a __DATA__
tag. No special modules are involved. It needs no other lines of _code_ to
compile. (hint hint).

At 10:28 -0700 08/25/1999, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>That code WILL compile, under the proper conditions.
>
>1.) Name those conditions,
>2.) WHY do those conditions work?
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