Re: Never-to-use Perl features ?

the ... operator
rand*10 parsed as rand(*10) instead of rand()*10 (not much of a Perl feature, but it still bites me after more than 6 years of perl hacking :-)

cheers,
Aldo

King of Laziness, Wizard of Impatience, Lord of Hubris

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Re^2: Never-to-use Perl features? (non-paren disambiguation) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on May 19, 2003 at 12:22 UTC
Tip: disambiguate those cases without adding parens by reversing the order of operands: `10rand` Makeshifts last the longest.*	[reply] [d/l]

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