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List:       perl-xml
Subject:    Re: XML::Parser, UTF-8 infinite loop bug?
From:       Aaron Crane <perl () aaroncrane ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-06-14 17:53:29
Message-ID: 20040614175329.GG14249 () aaroncrane ! co ! uk
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James Miller writes:
> Grant McLean <grant@mclean.net.nz> wrote:
> >     open(my $fh, "<", $filename)) or die("can't open $filename: $!");
> 
> As of Perl 5.8, passing an undef "my" variable into open() does, in fact,
> work (http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/open.html).  It does not
> work on Perl 5.6 (http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/func/open.html)

Actually, it does work in 5.6; search for 'autovivified' in perldelta.  It's
somewhat unfortunate that perlfunc doesn't document this very handy feature
until 5.8.

-- 
Aaron Crane
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