> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:23 PM
> To: Geoffrey Young
> Cc: mod_perl list
> Subject: RE: Why does $r->print() dereference its arguments?
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:07 PM
> > > To: Geoffrey Young
> > > Cc: mod_perl list
> > > Subject: RE: Why does $r->print() dereference its arguments?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> > >
> > > > interesing behavior - print behaves the same way...
> > >
> > >
> http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Apache_print_and_CORE_print_
> >
> > the guide is getting so big these days, it's hard to keep
> up with all the
> > new developments. Or maybe that entered a few versions ago
> :) It's along
> > way from the mini-guide that got me started...
>
> That's correct. It was added in the last release
>
> CHANGES:
> 04.09.2000 ver 1.22
> * porting: added: "Apache::print() and CORE::print()" (Doug)
>
> Well, it's been mini-guide, then it became just guide, now
> I'm going to
> call it giant-guide :) Sorry about the size. I hear woes when
> there is no
> documentation, and as well when there is too much of it... go
> figure out
> :)
no apologies necessary - more docs, and sharing of knowledge, are always
good things...
>
> > > Under mod_perl CORE::print() will redirect its data to
> > > Apache::print()
> > > since the STDOUT filehandle is tied to the Apache module.
> >
> > yeah, I thought something like that was happening, but I
> wasn't sure about
> > the mechanism - I recently saw that Apache::Filter will
> intercept print()
> > but not $r->print(), so I wasn't sure what was going on
> internally...
>
> Of course, it's because the two are basically the same under
> mod_perl, so
> it doesn't matter which one you pick to intercept. Well, only
> one way...
> $r->print() won't call CORE::print().
oh, I see it now (duh!)... thanks
--Geoff
>
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