I'm an admin, perl saved my life...
However, yesterday, some simple IO::Socket scripts failed to work on 5.6. I'm not
addressing that here but my resulting thought is now that the
distribution should only include such core components as are necessariy to define
perl's behavior.
Those
The reason that this was done this way was for the common
case of someone forgetting to chop an incoming line and
then splitting on whitespace.
while () {
@F = split;
...
}
Sean M. Burke wrote:
The current behavior makes trailing empty fields non-existent, and that's a
bizarre and nonintuitive thing to have be a default;
Only to some people; and besides, it's well documented.
if your code relies on
them being removed, then remove them explicitly, without
Sean M. Burke wrote:
The current behavior makes trailing empty fields non-existent, and that's a
bizarre and nonintuitive thing to have be a default;
Only to some people; and besides, it's well documented.
Well, Sean is right in that it is very bizarre to many people.
I know that when I
"TC" == Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TC The reason that this was done this way was for the common
TC case of someone forgetting to chop an incoming line and
TC then splitting on whitespace.
TC while () {
TC @F = split;
TC ...
TC }
Interesting. I thought it was
