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Hi all!
It's been nearly a month since there was activity on this patch. Should I
modify it further, or can it be applied as is?
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
On Monday 25 August 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 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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