On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:20:28PM -0500 James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 04:12 PM, Ken Tozier wrote: > > >No luck. Dropping the \ in 'my $description = > >DescribeCritter(\%wombatStats);' didn't fix the problem. > > You're right. I was dumb. Let me try again... > > >my $description = DescribeCritter(\% wombatStats); > > Drop the backslash and space here, as I said before.
You are right in that a space should probably not be there. However, it is legal and exhibits Perl's very odd lexer-rules. You can write: $ foo = "bar"; print $foo; __END__ bar It's probably only useful for obfuscated Perl contests. And this is totally mad: $ # a comment between the sigil and the variable name!! foo = "bar"; print $foo; __END__ bar Tassilo -- $_=q#",}])!JAPH!qq(tsuJ[{@"tnirp}3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$-3(rellac(=_$({ pam{rekcahbus})(rekcah{lrePbus})(lreP{rehtonabus})!JAPH!qq(rehtona{tsuJbus#; $_=reverse,s+(?<=sub).+q#q!'"qq.\t$&."'!#+sexisexiixesixeseg;y~\n~~dddd;eval -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]