in reply to what gives?

Next time, please use (at least) warnings:
perl -we 'print x x x + x x x' ... print() on unopened filehandle x at -e line 1.

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Re^2: what gives?
by tall_man (Parson) on Mar 03, 2005 at 01:06 UTC
    I take this to be an obfuscated perl puzzle rather than merely bad code, so the lack of stricture and warnings is deliberate.

    There are two mysteries: first, why it works at all and second, why it doesn't print. Now that I've looked at it, I think it's fairly clever.