From: nkuipers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> While reading the Cookbook, I came across the following on page 357:
>
> "If the value assigned to a typeglob is not a reference but itself
> another typeglob, then all types by that name are aliased. The types
> aliased in a full typeglob assignment are scalar....and format."
>
> I have used every globbed item except format...I've never even heard
> of format.
>
> What's a format? The Cookbook deals mostly with Perl 5.004; are
> formats deprecated?
I would not say deprecated. Just less often used.
Run
perldoc perlform
and you should get the format docs.
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