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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 04:44, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote: > snip > >> > >> open FOOBAR, "file", "mode"; > >> > >> FOOBAR doesn't look like a simple scalar. Doesn't need quotes, has no $ > >> ... > >> Why do you consider it a simple scalar? > > > > It's a glob, which is a scalar. > > I could have sworn FOOBAR in that case was just a bareword' It gets compiled to a glob, so @args = (*FOOBAR, '>', ...); open(@args) would work without the prototype.Thread Previous | Thread Next