In article <416EBC605EBED111A31A08002B9F4B3614B294@scarab.lq.web.co.nz>, Grant McLean <grantm@web.co.nz> wrote: >Bernie Cosell wrote: >> Writing "$| = 1" is unequivocal, robust, and clear, >> which is one of my '== better' criteria... > >shouldn't that be: eq 'better' :-) To do anything useful here, unequivocal, robust, clear, and better are all clearly subs returning overloaded objects. Whether the overload is on eq or == is clearly a matter of "style" (another of those objects). ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe