On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 05:49:19PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:54:34PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: > >I was mucking about playing with filehandles and discovered that in a.pl > >the output is incorrect whereas perl warns me about bad usage in b.pl > > [a.pl] print $bar, "q\n"; > [b.pl] print BAR, "q\n"; > > >They do, in essence, the same thing. > > The difference is that the syntax in b.pl is unambiguously incorrect, > hence may be (and is) detected at compile-time as an error. By > comparison, the syntax of a.pl is perfectly legal--consider: > > $bar = "hello, world"; > print $bar, "\n";
I'm not sure if this old bug should be kept open as a request for a runtime warning when printing out a stringified file handle, or just closed as a non-bug. Opinions? -- Niko Tyni [email protected]
