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Re: Reverse in scalar context

by Abigail (Deacon)
on Jul 12, 2001 at 01:12 UTC ( [id://95855]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Reverse in scalar context
in thread Reverse in scalar context

What do you mean with "prints nothing"? What are you trying to print? Note that you are trying to eval the string sub which is a syntax error:
$ perl -w $b = "bus"; eval reverse $b; print $@; __END__ syntax error at (eval 1) line 2, at EOF
And if the code doesn't compile, eval will return undef.

-- Abigail

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Re: Re: Reverse in scalar context
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jul 12, 2001 at 01:15 UTC
    If you read the post I was replying to, you'd know that I was not trying to print anything! Rather, I was pointing out this very problem, albeit more subtly, in the original node. I'm quite aware of what it does--I crafted it specifically to do that, yet with a real word might not be immediatly obvious.

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