RE: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

["Larry Rosler" <lr@hpl.hp.com>]

> From: Jeff Pinyan [mailto:jeffp@crusoe.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 13:09
> To: Larry Rosler
> Cc: fwp@technofile.org
> Subject: RE: [FWP] beauty vs. brains
>
>
> 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.)


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $f;

local $/, $f = <DATA>;

__END__


Parens missing around "local" list at e:\Test\foo.txt line 6.


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