On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:32:16PM -0700, Paul wrote:
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> --- Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:19:43AM -0700, Paul wrote:
> > >open THIS, ">&THAT"
> >
> > This dups (see man 2 dup) fileno(THAT) and opens it with the
> > filehandle THIS. The THIS and T
--- Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:19:43AM -0700, Paul wrote:
> >open THIS, ">&THAT"
>
> This dups (see man 2 dup) fileno(THAT) and opens it with the
> filehandle THIS. The THIS and THAT filehandles now refer to the same
> file descriptor, and thus th
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:19:43AM -0700, Paul wrote:
>open THIS, ">&THAT"
This dups (see man 2 dup) fileno(THAT) and opens it with the filehandle
THIS. The THIS and THAT filehandles now refer to the same file descriptor,
and thus the same underlying file.
>*THIS = *THAT
This aliases
Okay, we recently had a discussion of
open THIS, ">&THAT"
and
*THIS = *THAT
Doesn anybody know the difference?
Especially if you use STDERR and STDOUT instead of THIS and THAT?
Just trying to understand the underlying behavior.
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And on a seperate note, if Perl6 isn't going to u