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• Re: Is this a bug i Perl? (Score:1)

  by uniejo (5562)

  You need a semi colon after the use statement.
  Without that you only have one statement:
  
  #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict   print "Hello World\n"
  
  The return of the print statement is 1 (unless it fails).
  This effectively changes it into use strict 1.0 , whereby the module is required to be at least version 1.0
  
  Of course your code should look like this:
  
  #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
print "Hello World\n";

  • Re: Is this a bug i Perl? (Score:1)

    by cog (4665) <{cog} {at} {cpan.org}> on 2005.01.01 16:15 (#37173) Homepage Journal

    That was the precise point, the fact that the code would work some of the times without the semicolon :-)

    The part of the version one was taken care of pretty quickly [perl.org], but it took Aristotle [perl.org] to find out the reason for the exceptions [perl.org] (that is, modules below version 1 working and vice-versa).

    You wouldn't believe how ashamed of myself I am for not having solved the problem before posting it... oh well, one learns new things everyday :-)

    Anyway, if that's what it takes to bring a new user [perl.org] to the site, you can all count of me to do it again... O:-)

    Cheers, and welcome :-)

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