Oh, and if you're going to take my *deliberately* bad example to task
...
--- Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > sub slurp {
> > open FH, "< $file" or die $!;
> > do { $/ = undef; <FH> }
> > }
> b. 2-arg form of open -- banned
Not if you want your code to run under 5.005. Some people still have
that issue.
And you missed that $/ was not localized, a far more serious error :)
Cheers,
Ovid
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