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From: rearl@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Robert Earl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: JAPH's
Message-ID: <REARL.91Apr27064454@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 91 10:44:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: markb@agora.rain.com's message of 27 Apr 91 02:52:30 GMT

In article <1991Apr27.025230.27994@agora.rain.com> markb@agora.rain.com (Mark Biggar) writes:

|   Ok, everybody explain this one!
|
|   do not print ("Just another Perl Hacker\n");

I get an undefined subroutine error, and *then* it prints the line!
It's trying to call sub "not" with the return value of the "print" as
its argument.

	perl -e 'do not fork();'

gives an error, but

	perl -e 'do not exec("date");'

works, and as a bonus, never gets to the undefined subroutine :-)

Apparently it works only with the special operators with the syntax
"OP ARG LIST", where ARG for "print" is the filehandle, and for "exec"
is the program's argv[0].

--robert