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Re: A familiar mantra

by toolic (Bishop)
on Jun 21, 2015 at 17:33 UTC ( [id://1131353]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to A familiar mantra

When I copy this code, the ... shows up as character 0x85, and I get a compile error. If I change to 3 single periods, I get a runtime error. This runs without errors for me: 
do{ } || !do{  };

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Re^2: A familiar mantra
by belg4mit (Prior) on Jun 21, 2015 at 17:39 UTC
    The true ellipses were used for aesthetics, the bastard ASCII analog are meant to cause a runtime error. Or, more accurately, an exception… but of course, there is no try ;-)

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