Thus it was written in the epistle of Uri Guttman,
>
> interesting point: we are all in agreement for filehandle specific $/
> and $\. but what about global default values for those handles which hve
> not had theirs set? you can still set the global $/ and affect all
> handles which don't have private $/.
>
> i like the ability to set global defaults here.
Hear, hear! Chomp (which I still consider a useful critter :-), needs a
$/ sort of thing to know what to chomp and the lines it chomps may or may
not have come from a given file.
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary,
respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we
thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept
is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even
approximately.
-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
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Deep thoughts to be found at http://www.southern.edu/~ashted
