print "print "$n1 plus $n2 is ", $n1 + $n2, "\n";

where $n1 and $n2 are integers pulled from STDIN and chomped, outputs "4 plus 2 is 6" like it's supposed to.

However, what I tried to use before:

print "$n1 plus $n2 is " . $n1 + $n2 . "\n";

returns

Argument "4 plus 2 is 4" isn't numeric in addition (+) at operators.pl line 10, <STDIN> line 2.

but then goes on running the script. This is a warning, I assume, as it doesn't appear when I remove the warning flag from my hashbang line.

Also, this only outputs 6 as opposed to 4 plus 2 is 6.

Why does it behave this way?
It's not a huge deal as I've got it doing what I want now, but I'm curious.

In reply to This is odd. by JDelmoso

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