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Hong Zhang wrote:
> This code should NEVER work, period. People will just ask for trouble
> with this kind of code.
Actually I meant to have specified ">>" as the mode, i.e. append, then
what I originally said holds true. This behaviour is predictable and
dependable in the current perl implementation. Without the >> the file
will contain just "bar\n".
The point is that we have a stated goal of preserving the existing
semantics, and of allowing existing perl5 code to continue to work.
Despite what some people seem to think this is *not* a clean slate
situation. We may well have to deliberately carry over questionable but
depended-upon behaviour into perl6.
my $fh = do { local *FH; *FH; }
for example, better continue to work.
Alan Burlison
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