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Re: Diamond iteration (was: Fighting the Good Fight against spamdeluge)

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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
August 1, 2008 12:07
Subject:
Re: Diamond iteration (was: Fighting the Good Fight against spamdeluge)
Message ID:
20080801210732.5f8bd03f@pc09.procura.nl
On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:55:58 -0600, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
wrote:

> *FOO = sub { local $~ = "FOO"; write; };
> format FOO = 
> 
> Mind the gap!
> 
> .

Not that I ever missed it, but watch ...

$ perl -de0

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.

main::(-e:1):   0
  DB<1> use Devel::Peek;

  DB<2> $FOO = 1;

  DB<3> @FOO = (2, 3);

  DB<4> %FOO = (4 => 5, 6 => 7);

  DB<5> format FOO =
syntax error at (eval 21)[/pro/lib/perl5/5.10.0/perl5db.pl:638] line 2, near "format FOO ="



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