On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:47:16AM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
>  In Punie or Perl 6, when I execute a simple statement:
>  
>    print "2";
>  
>  It prints "21". This is because a) the return value of a successful 
>  print is "1", b) the main routine is returning the value of the last 
>  statement (note this is correct for Perl, but isn't correct for all 
>  languages), and c) HLLCompiler is printing out the return value of the 
>  eval'd code here:
>  
>      376   save_output_1:
>      377     print ofh, result
>      378     close ofh
>  
>  Commenting out line 377 gives the correct behavior of just printing "2". 
>  My question is, why is HLL compiler printing out the return value of the 
>  main routine?

What revision number are you working with?  I think this was fixed in
a later revision of HLLCompiler.

(It outputs the return value from the compilation phase when 
--target=pir is specified.  The previous version was a bit
overeager about outputting the result.)

Pm