On 12/08/2011 19:22, Robert Wohlfarth wrote:
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:03 AM, TimKapHwan<tkapra...@gmail.com> wrote:#!/usr/bin/perl -w sub func { return 10; } print func * 5, "\n";Perl interprets that command like this: print func(*5, "\n"); The "*5" and "\n" become parameters to func.
Not quite. func is being treated as a filehandle, and *5 and "\n" are parameters to print. If warnings were enabled you should get a message to the effect that filehandle func is not open. Try running print STDOUT * 5, "\n"; Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
