>>>>> ""Jay" == "Jay Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> There. Happy? No more tests. And now you'll complain about the
>> subroutine call. :)
"Jay> Just to muddy the waters a little more (and hopefully answer a
"Jay> question I've had for a while): how does the "flip-flop" operator
"Jay> function here:
"Jay> while (<>) {
"Jay> next if 1..9;
"Jay> # the rest of the code
"Jay> }
"Jay> Is '1..9' just shorthand for '$. <= 9'? Or does the flip-flop become a
"Jay> no-op once it flips?
"Jay> (I honestly has had no idea that was going to turn into bad perl
"Jay> poetry when I wrote it. Sorry.)
That's still a "test", violating the notion that you'll be testing
that test for the million lines after the first nine lines.
And yes, that notion is pointless, as I tried to suggest. :)
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