Re: Event->io does not accept GLOB refs

[Graham Barr]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:08:26AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> As I read the documentation, Event->io should accept a GLOB
> reference as argument, but I cannot get this to work (it only works
> with some glob references, e.g. ones created by IO::Handle):
> 
>    use Event;
> 
>    my $fh = do { local *GLOB };

$fh does not hold a GLOB reference, it is holding a GLOB. \$fh
will give you a reference to the GLOB.

Graham.