It's a simple statement evaluated for it's side-effects. There are no
side-effects to 'string'; so nothing appears to happen. However, this
value will be returned as the value of a subroutine or block if it's the
last statement in the block.
Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sorry for offtopic and silly question
>
> friend of mine just learning perl has asking me what does
> 'string'; means. Perl seems just silently ignores this
> 'statement' No warning, no action. Is it a known feature ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Oleg
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