open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) fails

This always fails:

    open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) || die;

Is this to be expected?

I assume what is going on is that ":raw" pops off the implicit
":scalar" layer.

Regards,
Gisle

• open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) fails by Gisle Aas
• Re: open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) fails by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) fails by Gisle Aas
• Re: open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) fails by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) fails by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) fails by Gisle Aas
• Re: open(my $f, "<:raw", \$a) fails by Rafael Garcia-Suarez