From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-08-20T04:40:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Shortest Ruby crash #49


On Aug 19, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Limo Driver wrote:

> My contribution to the contest:
>
> 5**6**7
>
> This baby throws "Errno::EBADF: Bad file descriptor", which I think
> deserves a medal for being the least intuitive error message of 2008!
>
> And now, for the real question...
>
> Why is this being evaluated as 5**(6**7), when for instance 9/9/9 is
> being evaluated normally (9/9)/9=0, instead of 9/(9/9)=9?
>
> Lata!


Mine is fine with it:
irb> 5**6**7
(irb):17: warning: in a**b, b may be too big
=> Infinity

What ruby do you have that crashes?

-Rob

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