On 1/23/19 4:44 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-01-23 15:32:00 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: >> This is completely mad and IMO the bug is in perl, not in all of the >> millions of perl scripts that used <> thinking it was a sensible thing >> to write. > > I agree that it would be better to drop this "feature" of Perl. > It is probably never used, and probably useless (I would rather > use the features from the shell if I need a pipe).
Perl's open is well documented. Quoting the perlipc: "it's much more efficient to process the file one line or record at a time because then you don't have to read the whole thing into memory at once." Please stop making python out of perl :)
