Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] using DATA for testing

[Eric Dobbs <dobbs@dobbse.net>]

>At 14:52 -0400 1999.08.11, Paul Corr wrote:
>>	*INPUT = *DATA{GLOB};
>>
>>I understand these are typeglobs but where does 'GLOB' come from? Is
>>it some sort of reserved word like DATA? Is this in a POD somewhere?
>>I see STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR in perlop.pod (and numerous books.)
>>DATA I picked up in my list reading. Is it documented somewhere?


At 3:28 PM -0400 8/11/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>I am not sure where it is documented, but it is known.

Some, but not all, of this stuff is documented in Chapter 3
of O'Reilly's Advanced Perl Programming, especially the
section on Typeglobs and References starting on p. 47.  I
didn't see anything in there specifically about
*FOO=*DATA{IO}.  This chapter also has a nice discussion of
the difference between local and my.

-Eric



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