Ted Ashton wrote: > John Porter: > > > > What would be the output of the following program: > > > > $\ = "\n"; > > $i = 0; > > for ( .. -1 ) { > > $i++; > > last if $i > 2; > > print > > } > > > > If the answer is (as I suspect), "This never prints anything; it goes > > into an infinite loop just trying to generate the first number", then > > the proposal is absurd and should be scrapped. > > By my understanding (which is definitely not very thorough), the output would > be a run-time error. What error message? "Program never halts!" ??? -- John Porter
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