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On 5 Dec 2001, at 18:04, Andrew.Savige@ir.com wrote:
> Piers Cawley wrote:
> > I think the particular 'creative in the extreme' entry that Andrew was
> > referring to was my head.pl that printed 10 lines then crashed using:
> >
> > #!perl -p
> > 11..&
>
> Yes indeed. When I first saw that I fell off my chair laughing.
> When I was finally able to pick myself up off the floor,
> I stared at the error message it produced for a while, then
> realised I had no idea what it did, how it worked, or even
> if it was valid Perl or Swahili or whatever, ...
Me, too. Is that actually exploiting a bug in perl? [which is legit, of
course -- I just seeking some clarification/understanding here]. It seems that
"&<ENDOFFILE>" is interpreted as a subroutine call to a subtroutine with no
name. I'd have thought that that would get you a syntax error (as you do get
in almost every other case I tried that tried to call an null-named subroutine.
Or am I misunderstanding [likely] how that works??
/Bernie\
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