On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:42:02AM -0700, Paul Lalli wrote:

> It's known, but I don't know that it qualifies as a bug.   When you
> use the two argument form of open, Perl is looking for both the
> filename and mode, concatenated together, possibly with spaces
> separating them.   Since your file ends in a space, you can't use this
> shortcut.  In reality, you should NEVER use this short cut.

That's an awfully long time.

The functionality is there for a reason, and sometimes it's appropriate
to use it.  Admittedly, that's not very often, but it's more often than
never.

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