On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:21:18PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > Hugo asks why the one-liner : > > perl -le 'print $a++' > > prints "0". Abigail doesn't find this behavior strange, and (as > expected) has "written code that depends on this". The discussion > continues. > Just to avoid people getting the impression I went out of my way to make use of this behaviour, here's a simple example: my $i; my %months = map {$_ => $i ++} qw /Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec/; AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next