Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

["Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com>]

"Dave Horsfall" <daveh@ci.com.au> wrote in message
news:20030217095508.K68469@mippet.ci.com.au...
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Lee Hart wrote:
>
> > However, it is a *huge* language, with a philosophy of having lots of
> > ways to do everything. That makes reading an existing Perl program quite
> > a challenge. It also have some anti-intuitive aspects; print 1 + 2 + 3
> > is "7", but print (1 + 2) + 3 is "3".
>
> Which universe would this be?

I got the results the original poster described using both Perl 5.6.1 on
WinXP and Perl 5.8.0 on RedHat 8.0.

I think it has to do with scalar and list contexts in Perl.

Kelly