Nifty perl trick I learned about today

[pauamma]

Context was someone asking why

print "Hello, world!\n" && die;

doesn't output anything. Someone replied with a nifty trick to help figure this out:

perl -MO=Deparse -e 'print "Hello, world!\n" && die;'

(go ahead and try it in your Dreamhack).

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[pauamma]

http://command-liners.dreamwidth.org/4982.html