Re: Fun with open() on a string

Peter Scott wrote:
> This very nearly qualifies as an easter egg.  Inspect the following:
>
>     perl -e 'close STDIN; open STDIN, "<", \$x; print <>'
>
> Guess what it does.  Run it.  See if you were right.
>
> Bugworthy?  I don't know; maybe, that's why I mention it here.  But it had
> some entertainment value for me today.
>   

+1 for weird. :-)

Do you have an explanation for why it does what it does? :-)

Cheers,
mark

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Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>

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