in reply to Re: Perl vs. Python for prime numbers
in thread Perl vs. Python for prime numbers

> $is_prime &&= $n % $_ or last for 2 .. sqrt $n;

why so complicated, isn't a simple flag sufficient?

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw(say); for my $n (2 .. 99) { my $prime = 1; for (2 .. $n-1) { $prime = 0, last unless $n % $_; } say $n, ' is a primer number' if $prime; }

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)