[Memphis.pm] interesting "quine"

[perl at erd3.com]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Big Ed wrote:

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> >From: sheff at pobox.com (Keith W. Sheffield) Reply-To: memphis-pm-list at pm.org 
> >To: memphis-pm-list at pm.org Subject: Re: [Memphis.pm] interesting "quine" 
> >Date: 22 May 2001 22:21:42 -0500
> >
> > >>>>> "Brock" == Brock Sides writes:
> >
> > > A perl program that prints its own source code: to standard error! > 
> >http://perl.plover.com/quine.html
> >
> > > -- > Brock Sides
> >
> >I wonder how many other cases exist where the error message can be the same 
> >as the source code?
> 
> So I'm curious.. why does it work?


The file name /tmp/p is taken as an attemp to divided something by the
variable 'tmp' the words in front of tmp ('Illegal division by zero at')
keep the /tmp/ from being interpreted as pattern matching.  So a file with
'test /tmp' in it will produce the same error message.

Reece Dike
reece at erd3.com


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