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Re: $RS paragraph mode going away?

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From:
pdcawley
Date:
July 8, 2002 02:08
Subject:
Re: $RS paragraph mode going away?
Message ID:
84y9cm7fms.fsf@despairon.bofh.org.uk
Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes:
> No, it's simply that using a global variable to control something
> that should be a filehandle attribute is the wrong way to go about
                              ^^^^^^^^^ property
> it.

'attribute' is gloriously pernicious isn't it? Or do you *really* mean
attribute in this case?

-- 
Piers

   "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
    possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
         -- Jane Austen?


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