Re: Program enters infinite loop, can you see why?

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Re^2: Program enters infinite loop, can you see why? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 07, 2010 at 04:11 UTC
By that logic, this should also hang, but it doesn't: `C:\test>perl -wE"1 while 'vwx' =~ m[vwx]g;"` [download] Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Program enters infinite loop, can you see why? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 07, 2010 at 04:21 UTC
interpolation always interpolates	[reply]
Re^2: Program enters infinite loop, can you see why? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 07, 2010 at 04:11 UTC
That doesn't really explain anything. In the following, what you said applies to `$x`, yet it doesn't loop forever. `#! perl -slw use strict; my @bits = unpack '(a3)*', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'; my $x = "@bits[3,5,7]"; 1 while $x =~ m[vwx]g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]