Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I don't mean to pound this to death, but does that mean then that >> there are no good uses of 2 arg opens? >> >> >> Regarding perlopentut, I've been able to follow about a 1/10 of what >> I've read so far, but I must say that many (of at least the early) >> examples appear to be 2 arg opens. >> >> In fact a whole boat load of them do, but here people have seemed to >> be indicating that 2 arg opens are bad, no one has shown a good use of >> a two arg open in this thread. >> >> Yet, in perlopentut, they are all over the place. > > A recent complaint in the Perlsphere is that the documentation for > open is old. Some day it will get fixed. > > There is nothing you can do with the 2-arg open that you can't do with > the 3-arg one. And the 3-arg one lets you do more. It is the > preferred method.
OK, just the kind of info I needed. Thanks for being patient and staying with it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
