what was the earliest version of perl that would
allow you to use scalar filehandles?
open(my $fh, filename);
instead of
open(FILEHANDLE, filename);
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that can use scalar filehandles
what was the earliest version of perl that would
allow you to use scalar filehandles?
open(my $fh, filename);
instead of
open(FILEHANDLE, filename);
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more importantly, what is the syntax for passing a filehandle
into a routine if it is FILEHANDLE instead of $FILEHANDLE?
open(FILEHANDLE, $filename ) or die trying $!;
open(my $fh, filename);
Autovivification of unitialized scalar filehandles was added in 5.6.0
On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:10:40 -0400, Greg London said:
what was the earliest version of perl that would allow you to use
scalar filehandles?
5.6; see perldoc perl56delta, File and directory handles can be
autovivified.
more importantly, what is the syntax for passing a filehandle
more importantly, what is the syntax for passing a filehandle
into a routine if it is FILEHANDLE instead of $FILEHANDLE?
foo(*FILEHANDLE)
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of perl that can use scalar filehandles
what was the earliest version of perl that would
allow you to use scalar filehandles?
open(my $fh, filename);
instead of
open(FILEHANDLE, filename);
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: RE: [Boston.pm] version of perl that can use scalar filehandles
more importantly, what is the syntax for passing a filehandle
into a routine if it is FILEHANDLE instead of $FILEHANDLE?
open(FILEHANDLE, $filename ) or die trying $!;
open(my $fh, filename);
Autovivification
: [Boston.pm] version of perl that can use scalar filehandles
more importantly, what is the syntax for passing a filehandle
into a routine if it is FILEHANDLE instead of $FILEHANDLE?
open(FILEHANDLE, $filename ) or die trying $!;
open(my $fh, filename);
Autovivification of unitialized scalar
BT == Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BT If you didn't remember the do local trick, you could always use Symbol
BT and then call gensym to get your typeglob.
i have used Symbol::gensym for years and it is fine for this. it comes
with perl5 from way back before 5.6 (not sure how old it
On 5/23/06, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BT == Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BT If you didn't remember the do local trick, you could always use Symbol
BT and then call gensym to get your typeglob.
i have used Symbol::gensym for years and it is fine for this. it comes
with
Note that 5.6 says *auto-vivification*, you could actually use scalar file
handles prior to this but you had to use Symbol::gensym (which is the proper
way to do the work-around given).
perl -MModule::CoreList -e 'print Module::CoreList-first_release('Symbol');'
prints 5.002
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