On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:21:18PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
>
> Hugo asks why the one-liner :
>
> perl -le 'print $a++'
>
> prints "0". Abigail doesn't find this behavior strange, and (as
> expected) has "written code that depends on this". The discussion
> continues.
>
Just to avoid people getting the impression I went out of my way
to make use of this behaviour, here's a simple example:
my $i;
my %months = map {$_ => $i ++} qw /Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec/;
Abigail
