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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:23, karl williamson <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by karl williamson > # Please include the string: [perl #76756] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76756 > > > > Attached > If the seed can every be 0, then this breaks the following very important code: print chr ord scalar qw eof write and print qq pop xor print chr ord qq and quotemeta xor lc print chr ord scalar qw seek fork x keys and print chr ord reverse q each y binmode xor uc print chr ord q defined and int srand print chr ord reverse q kill hex print link and print chr oct ord sqrt oct uc ord scalar qw pack dump xor print chr ord reverse q do rand xor print chr ord q read qr xor print chr int ord reverse qw fileno s printf and print chr sqrt ord reverse q each chomp pack binmode Of course, that is my own fault. The srand function did not document what it returns and I blindly trusted that it always returned a true value. The fix is pretty simple too: print chr ord scalar qw eof write and print qq pop xor print chr ord qq and quotemeta xor lc print chr ord scalar qw seek fork x keys and print chr ord reverse q each y binmode xor uc print chr ord q defined and int srand print chr ord reverse q kill hex print link xor print chr oct ord sqrt oct uc ord scalar qw pack dump xor print chr ord reverse q do rand xor print chr ord q read qr xor print chr int ord reverse qw fileno s printf and print chr sqrt ord reverse q each chomp pack binmode I guess it is time to print up new business cards. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.Thread Previous | Thread Next