On 9/5/05, Dintelmann, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When a subroutine _ is defined it may "mask" the _ handle used
> by file test operators.
>
> #!/opt/perl32/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> sub _ { "/etc/hosts" }
>
> open my $f, "/dev/null" or warn $!;
> stat $f or warn $!;
>
> print "size: ", -s _, "\n";
>
> In the last line sub _ is invoked and the script prints the size
> of "/etc/hosts" instead of 0.
>
> However "-X *_" seems to get this right. Should we mention this in
> perlfunc?
I don't think so, since this behaviour is the same with any other identifier.
