Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
> >Is some technical reason that this can't be done in perl 5? I hate
> >having to add another pair of braces just to reassure perl that I didn't
> >forget a comma:
>
> >print {$fh{$name}} "data\n";
>
> Indirect objects are very limited in what they can be.
Curre
>Is some technical reason that this can't be done in perl 5? I hate
>having to add another pair of braces just to reassure perl that I didn't
>forget a comma:
>print {$fh{$name}} "data\n";
Indirect objects are very limited in what they can be.
--tom
Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >=item Complex filehandle references
>
> >my %filesystem;
> >my $filename = '/etc/shells';
> >open $filesystem{$filename}, $filename
> >or die "can't open $filename: $!";
> >print <$filesystem{$filename}>;
> >__END__
>
> >GLOB{0xa042284}
>=item Complex filehandle references
>my %filesystem;
>my $filename = '/etc/shells';
>open $filesystem{$filename}, $filename
>or die "can't open $filename: $!";
>print <$filesystem{$filename}>;
>__END__
>GLOB{0xa042284}
This goes hand-in-glove with the issue tha
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
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=head1 TITLE
Angle brackets should not be used for file globbing
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Jon Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 August 2000
Last-Modified: 30 August 2000
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