RE: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On Mar 15, Larry Rosler said:

>>   { local $/, $file = <FILE> }
>
>No one has pointed out that the commas in your code should be
>semicolons.  That suppresses some warnings about unparenthesized lists
>for 'local', but doesn't affect the results.

Where (what version of Perl) do you get these warnings in?  I use a comma
because it's weaker than local(), and because it's "fun".  (Useless use of
double quotes there, when single quotes would have done, I'm sure.)

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