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# New Ticket Created by Dan Book # Please include the string: [perl #133934] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133934 > Currently I am very unlikely to direct anyone to the otherwise very useful perlipc for documentation, as it almost entirely uses bareword filehandles and the two-argument form of open. Two patches will be attached. The first corrects this by replacing bareword filehandles with lexicals, and using three-arg open where possible, and slightly reorganizes the explanation of forking and Unix platforms (forking is a property of using three-arg pipe open which works fine back to 5.6, not the list form which requires 5.8). Also the explanation of lexical filehandles is removed since they are used all over perldocs now and there's nothing special about them here. The second patch is a more general cleanup of consistency, as currently the examples are very inconsistent in strict safety and variable declaration. The patch makes all the examples strict safe, the "full script" examples consistently use strict and warnings, removes unnecessary forward declaration of variables (this practice leads to bugs), links to the core modules IPC::Open2/3 and Socket as they're mentioned, removed -w from shebangs (replaced by use warnings, due to the problems described by warnings.pm), and includes a waitpid line at the end of the IPC::Open2 example since it's required for proper usage of the module. Also one cleanup of a sentence fragment that's apparently been there since 1997! ( https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/7b05b7e32c22894360c5332cd30232bdea49f5a8 ) I hope that at least the first patch can be applied, if the second is not agreeable. -Dan (Perl)Thread Previous | Thread Next