perl compilation problems

Larry Wall lwall at devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Tue May 17 17:28:41 AEST 1988


In article <240 at sdba.UUCP> stan at sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown) writes:
: 	I am having a problem getting perl to compile on my machine.
...
: The lines of code of interest are:
: 
: 	for (j = 1; ; ) {
: 	    arg[j++] = node[1];
: 	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: 	    if (j >= i) {


This problem was pointed out to me by somebody--in version 2.0 the autoincrement
is separated out to the next statement to circumvent the problem.

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov



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