Re: A most obscure bug

[dragonchild]

in reply to A most obscure bug

Ummm .. Robin?

my $x = 1;
die "Oh dear!\n" while my $foo = $x && 0;
print "ok!\n";
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Oh dear!

It does die under 5.6.1 ... unpatched.

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[robin]

Exactly! It shouldn't die, because the condition is false and so the loop body should never be executed.

[Anonymous Monk]

c:\>perl -v This is perl, v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) c:\>perl my $x = 1; die "Oh dear!\n" while my $foo = $x && 0; print "ok!\n"; ^D ok!