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On Monday 25 August 2008, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from Shlomi Fish
>
> # on Sunday 24 August 2008 13:28:
> >This patch documents open "|-" and open "-|" in perlopentut.
>
> Perhaps it should follow the practice of single quoting non-interpolated
> strings like '|-' and 'fortune'?
Fixed in my copy.
> Also, the filehandle in a simple
> scalar $pipe does not need to be wrapped in a block when used as an
> argument to print.
But:
{{{{{{{{{{
print $pipe "Hi there!\n"
}}}}}}}}}}
is not recommended by PBP and I agree that the $pipe does not really stand out
there.
> The error message could probably stand to contain
> $! as well.
Fixed in my copy.
>
> I find the md5sum example not very illustrative (because md5sum will
> just print the result to stdout.) What about simply restating the
> aforementioned lpr and netstat examples?
I converted the '|-' example to "lpr".
>
> Finally, should these examples be included *before* the references to
> IPC::Open2 and perlipc?
>
Don't know.
> --Eric
New patch attached.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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