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Re: [perl #126715] Deprecate barewords?

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From:
Abigail
Date:
November 23, 2015 20:28
Subject:
Re: [perl #126715] Deprecate barewords?
Message ID:
20151123202827.GA5188@almanda.fritz.box
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?


Abigail

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