Re: Re: Generate Alphabet

Philip Olson wrote: > > I seriously doubt your code works -- have you tested it? I think the code > > you submitted will most probably output "1 2 3 4...24 25 26" (spaces are > > actually \n's). I never tested it though, so I may be mistaken. > > Yes, it works. Test it before posting such doubts :) > > Regards, > Philip Olson Ok, tested it and to my surprize it does work. But why?! Questions: 1. $letter++ -- why doesn't this evaluate $letter as integer before incrementing? 2. print $letter++ -- why doesn't this evaluate to "b" at the first loop when it's already 'a'? Ok, this I may be able to explain because it's neither "print ++$letter" nor "print ($letter++)", but I wouldn't have trusted this syntax to work this way a million years! Nice, elegant code indeed! Apologies for doubting it! :-) Bogdan