print (1 ? 1 : 0) . 'x'

[Richard Clamp]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:01AM +0100, O'Shaughnessy, Jamie wrote:
> 
> print (1 ? 1 : 0) . 'x';
> 
> What do you expect this would print?

1

Warnings are your friend.

% perl -we'print (1 ? 1 : 0)."x"'
print (...) interpreted as function at -e line 1.
Useless use of concatenation (.) or string in void context at -e line 1.

What you probably meant to write is:

  print +(1 ? 1 : 0) . 'x';


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Richard Clamp <richardc at unixbeard.net>