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No need for either (Score:2)

by Dom2 (2981)

Since 5.8.0, Perl can do this natively:

open my $fh, '>', \my $str;

That does the same thing as IO::Scalar and IO::String.
-Dom
- Too many caveats... (Score:1)
  
  by Alias (5735)
  
  That approach is fine if you don't care about anything older than 5.8.0 (which rules out all non-Unicode CPAN modules).
  
  While CPAN is just barely turning the corner and discarding 5.005 and use 5.6 as the new base version, it's nowhere near ready for a 5.8 minimum.
  
  Now for another few years at least.
  
  And worse, you can't validate the damned things either.
  
  DB $str = 'foo';

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