RE: and @ARGV

in reply to <> and @ARGV
in thread Subtle Quirks

Well, I went and looked at the Camel book again, and (to my surprise) the behaviour was documented. So yes -- I was not reading carefully, but...

I still think I wasn't out of my mind to be surprised. The only things I've used the angled brackets for are reading from file handles and globbing. The connection between <> and @ARGV doesn't seem obvious to me. It's a special-case behaviour.

I've only been w/ Perl for 1.5 years. Give me time. :)

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RE: RE: and @ARGV by chip (Curate) on Jul 28, 2000 at 22:59 UTC
Sorry if I came off as being snippy. It's just that the use of `<>` and `@ARGV` is so common in just about every text-oriented Perl script ever written.... I was just surprised that your experience was so atypical. It's as if C programmer were surprised to find that if you're in a `while`, and you do a `return`, it gets you out. (BTW, that was a real question from a real former cow orker. He's probably writing VB these days.) -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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RE: RE: and @ARGV
by chip (Curate) on Jul 28, 2000 at 22:59 UTC

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