Re: Friday - Return of Brain Teasers

If you want to execute some code... I'm sure you've all heard of the new "goes to" operator by now, but I hope it might be new to somebody. $i = 10; while ($i --> 0) { // while $i goes to 0

    echo $i ."\n";

} On 2012-10-05 22:34, Steven Staples wrote:

Subject: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers

     About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going

on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling:

         <?php require ++$cowbell; ?>

Is this supposed to execute to anything? I got this: Warning: require(1) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '1' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 -- I do know what it means, just thought maybe there was something more significant to it than this... "Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription...is more cow bell"