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in thread Wrong idioms

If it is a non-useful behaviour, then it is open that is at fault and should be fixed.

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Re^7: Wrong idioms (foot-in-mouth)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 30, 2013 at 04:53 UTC

    Really? Seems like a pretty useful testing strategy to me:

    open I, '<', undef or die $!;;

print fileno( I );;
3
print eof(I);;
1

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      Really? Seems like a pretty useful testing strategy to me:

      Everything seems both useful and broken to you, good luck flipping again

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        Look back for the word "if...". It was your conclusion it was not useful, not mine.

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