On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Stephen Turner wrote: > > $x*1.11%10 (~Jukka-50, Rick-51, Ton-52)
I've just discovered that this construction doesn't work inside an eval! The reason is that 08 and 09 become invalid octal numbers in that context. If anyone was wondering why I was doing such an odd thing, I was trying to see how much I could shorten this sort of idea: print$_=pop,$/;s/./$&>9)+$&).($&-9*($&+/g;/\(.*\)/&&exec$ -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
