Making a string, the space in your example, be the result of (numerical) multiplication seems like nonsense to me. If my code said

my $foo = 'bar';
my $aaa = 3;      # to avoid sort's special vars, $a & $b
my $bbb = 2;
my $result = $foo * ($aaa *$bbb);
say "\$result is: $result";

=head

Argument "bar" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at D:\_wo\1042598.p
+l line 11.
$result is: 0

=cut

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and I didn't get an anguished squawk from the compiler, I would be horrified. In fact, I'm semi-horified that this is only a warning, rather than a fatal error.


If you didn't program your executable by toggling in binary, it wasn't really programming!

In reply to Re^3: Precedence design question...'x' & arith by ww
in thread Precedence design question...'x' & arith by perl-diddler

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