use Perl

• Feature (Score:2)

  by davorg (18)

  See also

  $ perl -wle'print $|++ for 1 .. 10'     
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  $| only has two values, 0 and 1. I thought this was documented in perlvar but it doesn't seem to be. Perhaps it should be.
  • Re:Feature (Score:2)

    by cwest (1514)

    Sure it is, "... $| tells you only whether you've asked Perl explicitly to flush after each write ..."
    
    To me that sounds like it will return the moral equivalent of true or false (zero and one in this case) based on what the state of $| is.
    

    --
    Casey West
    • Re:Feature (Score:2)

      by KM (4) on 2002.08.20 8:28 (#11977) Journal

      Yes, that's how it works. It is a switch, on (1) or off (0). But, why would, in the case if this variable, substracting from 0 makes it 1? If that is a 'feature', I wouldn't mind knowing what the feature is :)

      Actually, this also occurs with $^W:

      # perl -le 'print $^W; $^W--; print $^W';
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