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From:
Dan Book
Date:
December 13, 2017 02:12
Subject:
Re: [perl #104060] Writing to $> and friends hide errors
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CABMkAVW3xW2hxaX+drUq6Tc=gSsD6GZ-5tZ=rVtpnzC1iB0Khw@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We should definitely fix our terrible documentation for these variables to
> actually describe how to use them sensibly though.
>

That would be really nice. I usually resort to using the equivalent
functions in POSIX.pm because it's easier to tell how they work. (Not to
mention that $( and $) are really weird, and reference setgroups() which
isn't in POSIX.pm.)
-Dan

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