On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 01:43:05PM -0500, Eric Brine wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote: > > > I use > > > > print STDERR "bla bla"; > > > > quite often. > > > > Neither "print" nor "STDERR" are barewords in that program. A bareword is > an identifier treated as a string since it has no other meaning. "print" is > treated as an operator, and "STDERR" as a glob(?). The output of "perldoc -f print" contains the following phrase: If you're storing handles in an array or hash, or in general whenever you're using any expression more complex than a bareword handle or a plain, unsubscripted scalar variable to retrieve it, you will have to use a block returning the filehandle value instead, in which case the LIST may not be omitted: If "STDERR" isn't a bareword, then which bareword is this phrase referring to? AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next