Re: Setting variables with eval

2006-05-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:13:00AM -0400, Chas Owens wrote: > > By the way, $a and $b are special varaibles used by the sort function > and therefore do not need to be declared with "my", but it is bad form > to use them for anything but the sort function. For short examples it > is best to use $

Re: Setting variables with eval

2006-05-05 Thread Chas Owens
On 5/5/06, Steve Swift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've written a tiny program to make it easy to test the syntax and effects of a Perl statement. My program is called "perltry" and here it is in its full gory (pun intended) #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; system('clear'); system('perl

Re: Setting variables with eval

2006-05-05 Thread Steve Swift
It works fine for me: But you're cheating and not using my program! :-) If I comment out the "use warnings" in my program then it works as expected (at least, as *I* expected it to) -- Steve Swift (aka "Swifty") -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: Setting variables with eval

2006-05-05 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 11:29 +0100, Steve Swift wrote: > I've written a tiny program to make it easy to test the syntax and > effects of a Perl statement. My program is called "perltry" and here it > is in its full gory (pun intended) > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use strict; > use warnings; > system('c

Re: Setting variables with eval

2006-05-05 Thread John W. Krahn
Steve Swift wrote: > I've written a tiny program to make it easy to test the syntax and > effects of a Perl statement. My program is called "perltry" and here it > is in its full gory (pun intended) > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use strict; > use warnings; > system('clear'); > system('perl -v'); > print

Re: Setting variables with eval

2006-05-05 Thread Bjørge Solli
On Friday 05 May 2006 12:29, Steve Swift wrote: > I've written a tiny program to make it easy to test the syntax and > effects of a Perl statement. My program is called "perltry" and here it > is in its full gory (pun intended) > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use strict; > use warnings; > system('clear'); >