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Postings from November 1999
Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@redcat.com> writes:
>On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
>
>> A coworker accidentally did:
>>
>> {
>> local($/ = undef);
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> This did not localize $/ . I don't know what it did do.
>
>It looks to me as if it did localize $/ -- but only _after_ storing undef
>into it. Oops!
That is exactly what it says ;-)
>
>> There was no warning. Could I get a warning out of it?
>
>Or, better yet, could perl simply Do The Right Thing?
I think it is doing the right thing.
--
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.
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