testing testing... perl question

[Ovid]

--- Aidan Samuel <aidan.samuel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Aahhhh, I get it now!

I'm surprised no one appears to have mentioned the B::Deparse module
yet:

$ perl -MO=Deparse -e '@a = (1..5); print sort $a <=> $b, @a;'
@a = 1..5;
print sort($a <=> $b, @a);
-e syntax OK

This clearly shows that Perl is not parsing the code the way you
expected it to.

Cheers,
Ovid

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