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From: lwall@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: perl compilation problems
Message-ID: <2046@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 17 May 88 07:28:41 GMT
References: <240@sdba.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <240@sdba.UUCP> stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown) writes:
: 	I am having a problem getting perl to compile on my machine.
...
: The lines of code of interest are:
: 
: 	for (j = 1; ; ) {
: 	    arg[j++] = node[1];
: 	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: 	    if (j >= i) {


This problem was pointed out to me by somebody--in version 2.0 the autoincrement
is separated out to the next statement to circumvent the problem.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov