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Postings from April 2000
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.co
m> whispered:
| >There may indeed be concatenation going on in building the string, but my
| >question is more to do with whether I'm the only one who thinks the message
> is
| >a bit misleading with the 'concatenation (.)' bit. I can't see a single
| >period in the string: "$this and @that" and I'm not explicitly joining
| >anything.
|
| --- /usr/local/src/perls/perl-5.6.0/sv.c Thu Mar 23 14:44:37 2000
| +++ ./sv.c Sat Apr 1 08:36:08 2000
| @@ -218,10 +218,26 @@
How about the much less inflamatory, and much more useful:
--- opcode.h~ Tue Apr 4 09:30:06 2000
+++ opcode.h Tue Apr 4 09:26:38 2000
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
"integer addition (+)",
"subtraction (-)",
"integer subtraction (-)",
- "concatenation (.)",
+ "string or concatenation (.)",
"string",
"left bitshift (<<)",
"right bitshift (>>)",
Which causes:
./perl -we ' print "$x and $y"'
Name "main::x" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
Name "main::y" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in string or concatenation (.) at -e line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in string or concatenation (.) at -e line 1.
-spp