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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote: > 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? > It's referring to "STDERR", but STDERR is not a bareword there. "A word that has no other interpretation in the grammar will be treated as if it were a quoted string. These are known as 'barewords'." Bad doc.Thread Previous | Thread Next