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Thanks for letting me know that Abigail. I didn't realize you could use reserved words in filehandles. I guess it's just more of a recommendation that you don't use them. Thanks again.

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Re: What the @#%* lost again!
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 02, 2003 at 22:49 UTC
    Well, I carefully worded it "all-caps words with a special meaning". BEGIN isn't a reserved word. However, you can use reserved words as file handles, as long as you quote them when appropriate: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

open print => "/etc/passwd" or die;
print while <print>;

__END__

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    If you replace the => with a comma, the code above won't compile.

    Abigail

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