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in thread Guess what it does ... and a challenge

perl -e '1while++$_' eventually will eat all memory too... the most slower way :)

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Re^3: Guess what it does ... and a challenge (max number size)
by tye (Sage) on May 31, 2008 at 20:23 UTC

    No, it won't. Now, if you do $_='a' first, then it will, and extremely slowly too.

    - tye        

      Damn, you're right, silly me. In golfy way:
      1while$~++
      Update: leaks here btw, 5.8.8 activestate