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Re: Perl odditiesby bart (Canon) |
on Mar 01, 2005 at 22:40 UTC ( [id://435642]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
First of all, I'd like open and opendir to have returned an open handle, or undef on failure, instead of changing a passed argument on the side. But Joost already mentioned that.
And second, I find it not just odd but also extremely annoying how the -X operators ignore parens as a hint for parsing precedence. Take this example: This yields: Argument "test.pl" isn't numeric in addition (+) at test.pl line 2. Use of uninitialized value in print at test.pl line 2. Perl treats this the same as
Not exactly what I had in mind. You have to wrap the parens around both operator and argument, to make it behave like I want. Just like Applescript.
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