Re: [ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value

>> Maybe the documentation is at fault, then.  I don't see why the
>> current behavior is not simply described by
>> 
>> 	If the only problem was that the program exited non-zero $!
>> 	will be set to the empty string.

>Because the value of $! *is not a string*.

Wrong.  Back into the Sophist's hole with you.  Just
looking for crap to pick at today, eh?

It can be a string.
It can be also a number.

And these are magically rather than canonically connected.

So what.

--tom

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• [ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value by mjd
• Re: [ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value by Ilya Zakharevich
• Re: [ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value by Mark-Jason Dominus
• Re: [ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value by Ilya Zakharevich
• Re: [ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value by Mark-Jason Dominus
• Re: [ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value by Tom Christiansen