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On 20-Mar-02 Nicholas Clark tried to scribble about: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:13:11PM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote: >> Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > >> > For lexicals like your $stdout it is a glob ref - what you have there >> > stringifies it and there isn't a file handle called GLOB(0x12345678) >> > so it fails - you need to use three-arg form: >> > >> > open STDOUT ,">&",$stdout >> > >> > should work. >> >> well I was writing a patch for perlfunc, and then I've tested it -- it >> doesn't work, >> >> open STDOUT ,">&" . fileno($stdout) >> >> as suggested by Rafael does work, but that's ugly and not perlish :( >> >> Neither the code in perlfunc open()'s section's example works, somebody >> changed the old working code without testing and broke it. > > 1: To me this specific thing sounds like a serious bug. > (scoring +1 because it breaks a documentation example, and +1 because > the $someone who hacked the core in the area thinks it should work, > but > it doesn't) > > 2: (For the perl-qa people) Is there a workable solution yet to making > a tool to auto-test all the code examples in the pod? I hacked once something together, but it stumbled on some silly thing like "how to mark example code that should be tested". I proposed just to test everything and then clean up - but that is probably too much work. Cheers, Tels - -- perl -MDev::Bollocks -e'print Dev::Bollocks->rand(),"\n"' evangelistically repurpose compelling markets http://bloodgate.com/perl My current Perl projects PGP key available on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or via email -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPJjMSHcLPEOTuEwVAQHv2gf9F9XPqWcpDpzJ0LQRGwhOZZR57xxfRB2D i44krk8SiyL/3N6fi45QDATlgHPj4FkO127TTVeVbIeE93pQhJ22o2apAuE9JEMj S6ViEv7Ip2OHxMUftKfi4BmH7Y3+WTPXW3CQDm8pA34Avlz9zEE7EJt1IoG/uKFv ZYWHDgmxMeqjgoEqFzmI+0V3mEkXk6bGhQWzWNpCVY0W0sMweTAWQiVEnoLwK99v 8QVLrbyAsU5E6JtJaAwjssmmQshyt0EAoe7yFhQNWK1YVhGeb2FYN8HT/WtSjvrO Weve0yd2v6Ak7C8eltutZhK5X1tlgMMG9/A5bV/uz8fYi39fsIJKnQ== =yi00 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
