The Lair

Hmmm, seems that Perl doesn’t really distinguish (or care) about a square bracket [] versus a function call. I made the same mistake that davorg seems to have made … instead of calling rand(6); as I intended, I called rand[6];

Just a difference in the type of bracket, but they mean something entirely different. And alarmingly, the interpreter can’t help you catch things like that. I was tipped off when the small random values I was expecting kept being inflated by a few 1000s.

And on the topic of things weird and hilarious, it appears that an internal mailing list had an unfortunate reply-to address. Secretarial support could be gotten by mailing secs@… Well, at least till they changed the mail alias just now and I saw that notification.

Yep, that’s S-E-C-S, pronounced “sex”. I think no one would appreciate the sort of juvenile humour that immediately sprang to my mind, so I’m reduced to blogging about it.

On a similar note, how do people pronounce OSX ?