On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Stas Bekman wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> > There is this entry in the guide:
> >
> > ----
> > The interface to file handles which are linked to variables with
> > Perl's tie() function is not yet complete. The format() and write()
> > functions are missing. If you configure Perl with C<sfio>, write() and
> > format() should work just fine.
> > ----
> >
> > Is this still true under 5.6.x?
>
> if I rely on the perltie man page, these two aren't implemented in 5.6.x.
Note that Damian Conway has released a replacement for format as a
module. I forget what it's called now, but it's in his directory on CPAN
(not Text::Autoformat, btw).
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