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This turned out not to be the disaster I expectedby Dominus (Parson) |
on Jun 06, 2007 at 19:28 UTC ( [id://619650]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I was initially thinking about a module that would generate and execute every possible piece of Perl code when it was loaded. Such a module would be very useful, because once you loaded it, you wouldn't have to actually run your program; it would already have done whatever it was that you wanted. As a first cut, I wrote:
realizing that this wasn't going to be what I wanted, because it doesn't generate any code with spaces or punctuation, but I thought it might be fun, at least as a joke. It looks like it is going to take a long time to execute, so I ran it with some fear that it might crash my machine or do something else bad. But actually it executes rather quickly, and nothing bad happens. As I said, it was not the disaster I expected. Can you predict the results?
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