Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:10:13AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: >> That may be because the empty string is a valid file name on the >> Hurd (it refers to the current directory), though it isn't on Linux. >> The perl program that uses the empty file name, when what it really >> intends is not to refer to any file name, is buggy. > >Yuck. > >Is this a common thing to do in Perl?
It's not one I've seen used very often. Modulo thinkos, I think most Perl programmers would naturally use undef for that sort of thing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
