Re^3: "last expression" quiz

As the node you’re replying to already says: check Re^8: Unhappy returns for code.

$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i486-linux

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^4: "last expression" quiz by robin (Chaplain) on Oct 23, 2005 at 15:14 UTC
There is a bug in your code. You've missed out the `->()` in the last two cases, so it's printing the sub rather than the result of calling the sub.	[reply]
Re^5: "last expression" quiz by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 27, 2005 at 05:37 UTC
Gack. Thanks for the catch. That was stupid. Fixed, node has been updated. The new behaviour is a tad more consistent, but still not consistent with the documentation. What gets returned is the last expression from the body of the `do`, while the last one evaluated is clearly the `while`/`until` condition. (Arguably, the real behaviour is more useful than the strictly doc-adherent one would be.) Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]