> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:07 PM
> To: Geoffrey Young
> Cc: mod_perl list
> Subject: RE: Why does $r->print() dereference its arguments?
>
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:
>
> > interesing behavior - print behaves the same way...
>
> http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Apache_print_and_CORE_print_
the guide is getting so big these days, it's hard to keep up with all the
new developments. Or maybe that entered a few versions ago :) It's along
way from the mini-guide that got me started...
>
> Under mod_perl CORE::print() will redirect its data to
> Apache::print()
> since the STDOUT filehandle is tied to the Apache module.
yeah, I thought something like that was happening, but I wasn't sure about
the mechanism - I recently saw that Apache::Filter will intercept print()
but not $r->print(), so I wasn't sure what was going on internally...
thanks
--Geoff
>
> > however, when you concat the reference to another scalar things work
> > right...
> >
> > $r->print($foo.\$foo);
> > yields:
> > fooSCALAR(0xXWHOOPSX)
> >
> > --Geoff
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jeffrey W. Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 1:37 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Why does $r->print() dereference its arguments?
> > >
> > >
> > > Apache::print() dereferences its arguments. For example,
> this code:
> > >
> > > my $foo = "bar";
> > > $r->print(\$foo);
> > >
> > > prints "bar" instead of the expected SCALAR(0xDEADBEEF).
> Can anyone
> > > explain the purpose of this behavior, or is it a misfeature?
> > > In my case,
> > > this is not the desired behavior.
> > >
> > > -jwb
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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