RE: Properties and "0 but true".

[David Grove]

> That's not how I see it.  The filehandle is naturally true if it
> succeeds.  It's the undef value that wants to have more information.
> In fact, you could view $! as a poor-man's way of extracting the error
> that was attached to the last undef.

If I were wealthy enough in time and patience to forego poor-man's error
handling for exceptions and verbosity I'd be programming in C++ with PCRE.

David T. Grove
Blue Square Group
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