[Purdue-pm] Why does this work?

Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu
Wed Apr 4 13:28:40 PDT 2012


Why shouldn't it work?   I presume you are talking about "why does the null statement after the left brace not interfere with the program?"  If so then the answer is simple -- it is a null statement.

----- Original Message -----
> 1 #!/usr/bin/env perl
> 2
> 3 use strict;
> 4 use warnings;
> 5
> 6 use feature 'say';
> 7
> 8 for my $i(1 .. 10) {;
> 9 say $i;
> 10 }
> 
> 
> ?? Why does that work?
> 
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