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in reply to Seemingly odd behavior of sequence

If you're curious how Perl parses an expression--perhaps for debugging purposes or just for the pure joy of it on a rainy afternoon--you can use the module B::Deparse at the command line as follows:

perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e 'print 0..9 x 2, "\n";'

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Output:

print((0 .. (9 x 2)), "\n");
-e syntax OK

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Note that the output echoes oiskuu's spot-on assessment of your expression's evaluation.

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Re^2: Seemingly odd behavior of sequence
by jar00n (Novice) on Dec 05, 2013 at 09:44 UTC
    And many thanks to you for showing me this debugger.
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      You're most welcome, jar00n!

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