On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:55:58 -0600, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: > *FOO = sub { local $~ = "FOO"; write; }; > format FOO = > > Mind the gap! > > . Not that I ever missed it, but watch ... $ perl -de0 Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 0 DB<1> use Devel::Peek; DB<2> $FOO = 1; DB<3> @FOO = (2, 3); DB<4> %FOO = (4 => 5, 6 => 7); DB<5> format FOO = syntax error at (eval 21)[/pro/lib/perl5/5.10.0/perl5db.pl:638] line 2, near "format FOO =" -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous