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$s = 0;
print $s ++ for 1..9;

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Will not increment. Apparently, it depends on the context, whether the whitespace matters.

mkmcconn

update: danger, I'm sure you must be right about the prototyping of print().

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Head to numb to see it.....
by danger (Priest) on Mar 08, 2001 at 23:02 UTC

    There have to be exceptions to every rule :-). This was obviously not the problem with the present question though. And, I am inclined think this is perhaps a little bug:

    
sub blah {
    print shift;
}
blah($s ++) for 1 .. 9;   # works fine
blah $s ++  for 1 .. 9;   # syntax error

print $s ++  for 1 .. 9;   # syntax error
print($s ++) for 1 .. 9;   # syntax error

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    The latter print() case is probably related to print()'s prototype for optionally accepting a filehandle).

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