this may have nothing to do with this thread, other than it is the only one search returned. I see a lot of argv.t test failures on my AIX smokers. fyi. On Sep 30, 2014 8:34 AM, "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgs@consttype.org> wrote: > On 29 July 2014 23:54, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > > * Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> [2014-07-24T11:51:40] > >> I believe that this was discussed here some years ago, and that this > >> was suggested by TomC. Anyway, I pushed a patch on rgs/nomagicopen. > >> The patch is incomplete as it lacks docs and tests. I welcome feedback > >> on the intent of the feature. > > > > I'm still not crazy about the one-off syntax addition, but I think that > it's > > the best we're going to see without setting an unrealistic bar for a new, > > generic feature. If we ever *do* get <> adverbs, we can call this sugar > for > > one or blah blah blah it doesn't matter that much right now. :-) > > > > While my heart wants -n to be safe, my conscience tells me that we'll > break > > enough (bizarre, to my mind (except maybe regarding "-")) expectations > that it > > isn't worth doing. Probably we want -P and -N for safe opening. > > > > I am gratified to see that <<X>> fails for any X, as you've only made the > > literal construct <<>> iterate. Awesome. I think we're going to want a > better > > error message, if possible, though, than: > > > > ~/code/perl5$ ./perl -e 'while (<<ARGV>>) { print }' 'ls |' > > Can't find string terminator "ARGV" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. > > > > Something roughly like "safe <<>> operator meaningless on concrete > filehandles" > > — that's not right, but you get the idea. > > > > I don't think I have any further thoughts on it. > > I have now merged this in blead, with more tests, and docs by Peter Martini > and myself. I also added tests for the $ARGV variable, that was not tested. > > I'm not too sure about the error message; it's not totally trivial to > change, since > a script like this one, for example, will print "8": > > print <<FOO>> 1; > 16 > FOO >Thread Previous | Thread Next