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Uh, $filehandles??? (Score:1)

by GAVollink (5690)

I've never considered opening a file with a $scalar. I may have to read the book just to find out why bareword files are so bad.
Anybody want to clue me in, so I can avoid the book?
- Re:Uh, $filehandles??? (Score:1)
  
  by tirwhan (6235)
  
  Seriously don't avoid this book. PBP has got to be the most useful perl reference since the camel.
  - Re:Uh, $filehandles??? (Score:2)
    
    by barryp (2829) on 2005.09.16 5:52 (#43314) Homepage
    
    I cannot agree more, and said as much at the very end of my review: "PBP is a must-have". (Paul).
    
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      by mpapec (5159)
      
      Damian shows in book that some of the perl defaults were badly picked, (i.e. /xmg switches should be default for regexs) so most of current programmers should change the way they're thinking. I hope this will make sense to people which are starting with perl..

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