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Excellent teaser. It parses because it is legal perl syntax of course! In this context it means print a reference to a reference to the return value of m// divided by a reference to a reference to a reference to the return value of m//. Wow that's a mouthful. In code form:

print //; # prints 1, scalar return val of match null in $_ (alw +ays true) print \//; # SCALAR(0x....) print \\//; # ditto print \\\//; # ditto print \\\\//; # ditto etc... # thus what you are saying is divide the scalar value # of one memory reference by another print \\// / \\\// ref div ref

It does not evaluate to 0 however as you imply. I get 0.999998046573592 on Win32 as we are dividing two closely allied memory addresses by each other. The first one evaled logically gets the smaller memory address (stack theory) so the result should always be a number just less than 1 - the bigger the memory you have (and the closer to out of memory you are) the closer to one it will be. You can demonstrate my theory with this snippet

$a = \1; # first ref in lower mem $b = \1; # second ref in slightly higher mem print $b/$a; # prints 1.00000684833673

tachyon


In reply to Re: Brain Teaser by tachyon
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