On 5 Dec 2001, at 18:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Piers Cawley wrote: > > I think the particular 'creative in the extreme' entry that Andrew was > > referring to was my head.pl that printed 10 lines then crashed using: > > > > #!perl -p > > 11..& > > Yes indeed. When I first saw that I fell off my chair laughing. > When I was finally able to pick myself up off the floor, > I stared at the error message it produced for a while, then > realised I had no idea what it did, how it worked, or even > if it was valid Perl or Swahili or whatever, ...
Me, too. Is that actually exploiting a bug in perl? [which is legit, of course -- I just seeking some clarification/understanding here]. It seems that "&<ENDOFFILE>" is interpreted as a subroutine call to a subtroutine with no name. I'd have thought that that would get you a syntax error (as you do get in almost every other case I tried that tried to call an null-named subroutine. Or am I misunderstanding [likely] how that works?? /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--
