Re: Paranormal leakage of previous value from conditionally set lexical variable

I can duplicate your results on Perl 5.16.3.

What do you expect your output to be? I expect to get the following warning when dow=7 since you don't set workday to a defined value:

Use of uninitialized value $workday in concatenation (.) or string
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Tip #6 from the Basic debugging checklist: B::Deparse, but it doesn't reveal much.

Interesting to change 8 to 9:

while ($dow < 9) {

...

2 0
3 0
4 0
5 0
6 1
7 1
8 0
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Re^2: Paranormal leakage of previous value from conditionally set lexical variable by GotToBTru (Prior) on Mar 10, 2016 at 13:31 UTC
8 is not 6 or 7; therefore the if sets $workday to 0. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NASB)	[reply]