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Wednesday November 30, 2005
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Interesting Perl Typo
Took me a while to work out what this interesting Perl typo was doing.
$ perl -le 'print rand[10]'
24306146.4335798
$ perl -le 'print rand[10]'
49138251.923694
Obviously what was intended was rand(10).
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Re: (Score:1)
It took me about 5 seconds. :-)