>>>>> "JSD" == Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JSD> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:46:41PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
>> 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 $/.
JSD> That word "global" bothers me. We can have default settings for
JSD> $STDIN, $STDOUT, $STDERR that vary as well as default settings on
JSD> filehandles opened by the user. But changing $/ shouldn't affect
JSD> all of them. $/ should go away.
the key word besides global is default. this would be the value used by
any new filehandle created. you can override that at anytime in that
filehandle. otherwise the default value for $/ for new handles will be
hardcoded in %CONFIG or something like that. the global aspect was meant
to show it was the default for ALL new handles. i don't care if it is in
$/ or some new place.
uri
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