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Posted: **Tue Sep 08, 2020 7:32 pm**

Please explain the output of this script

/* Gerard Schildberger's badboy */
do i=0 to 7
$= ''
         do j=0 to i
         $= $ fff(j)
         end
say $
end
exit

/* This is not a procedure, $ is still global */
fff:  $= 12
      return $

Posted: **Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:32 am**

To me it looks like an ARexx bug where $ variable gets a value of some memory address instead of 12, when $ is set in the fff function. The bug seems to emerge not before the fff has been called at least ten times.

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