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On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:02:45 +0200, Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 24.09.2013 14:27, Ed Avis wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK, glob splitting on whitespace was an accident of its original
> > implementation (which worked by running an external tcsh) and was preserved
> > for compatibility when glob became implemented by Perl code.
> >
> > Personally I'm not a fan of this behaviour - it tends to cause bugs when
> > file or directory names contain spaces, as is nowadays common on Windows and
> > Mac systems. The fact that split-at-space has never happened on VMS might be
> > another argument towards deprecating it.
>
> Yes, please! You can easily get the old behavior of glob "foo bar" with
> glob("foo"), glob("bar").
No, please not. That would break
foreach my $filename (<a b c d* ef* >) {
which would extend to quite a long and ugly line when you have to
rewrite those to globs where parens are required.
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