Perl and C are my two languages of choice at the moment. (I intend to add Haskell at some point, in my Copious Free Time.) So naturally, sometimes I find myself writing C that looks like this: 

for($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) {
  &foobar($arr[$i]);
}

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No big surprise there. But today at work, hacking together another DBI script, I wrote: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use struct;

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Naturally, struct wasn't what I meant to type. But my instinctive reaction to the error message was rather unusual, and (in retrospect) quite amusing: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

typedef struct;

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Whoops. Anyways, I figured I'd give you fine folks a chance to have a chuckle at my expense. Anyone else have similar stories that they wouldn't mind sharing?

Blessed be

Update: Gah. Well, it was Samhain in localtime when I posted.

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In reply to Perl and C don't always mix well by FoxtrotUniform

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