Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Michael Stevens]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:00:57PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >Doesn't print 'GLOB' for me, but that's because a lot of real-world systems
>                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^
> >haven't hit 5.6.0 (I'm guessing, not absolutely sure that's the cause),
> If you look at it, you'll notice that "real" is here being used as
> something of a pejorative, and, as such, can become a negative flash
> word and so make people tune out of what's being said.

It was intended to come out more as "as a matter of current fact, it is
inconvenient for me to verify the behaviour of the code you post". Apologies
if any offense was caused.