Re: Hamming minigolf post mortem

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 04:02:38PM -0400, Keith C. Ivey wrote:
> But why does 'print for 0 x6..~$~' work when 'print for
> 0 x6..$~' doesn't?

In the latter case $~ has never been used in string context (since
it's never been used), so magical string auto-increment doesn't apply.
That's why even something like '$~; print for 0 x6..$~' works.

> I wouldn't have expected the first one
> to work with or without 'for', since ~$~ doesn't contain any
> [A-Za-z0-9].

It doesn't need to.

perldoc perlop: 

: If the final value specified is not in the sequence that the magical
: increment would produce, the sequence goes until the next value would
: be longer than the final value specified.

-- 
Juho Snellman