Re: Ircnet minigolf 4, maybe too easy

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, John W. Krahn wrote:

> Stephen Turner wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone explain the following? Or is it just one of those Perl quirks
> > that one frequently encounters when playing golf :-) ?
> > 
> > % perl -e'@x=(st);print <@x>'
> > st
> > 
> > % perl -e'$x="st";print <$x>'
> > 
> > % perl -e'%x=(st=>1);print <%x>'
> > %x
> 
> 
> You mean the fact that $ and @ are interpolated while % isn't or that a
> scalar inside <> is a file handle while an array inside <> is a glob?
> 
> 

Ah yes, I get it now, thank you. <$x> is a filehandle -- but you can use
<${x}> to force it to be a glob. %x doesn't get interpolated inside double-
quoted strings anyway.

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01

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