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[perl #89662] PATCH to perlfunc.pod: select fix
authorTom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
Mon, 2 May 2011 13:28:53 +0000 (09:28 -0400)
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>
Wed, 18 May 2011 18:59:37 +0000 (14:59 -0400)
commitf0815dd4f7c009ef07738512627c674bae2dc95c
tree1edd1421f9566e00ede03f125e1d02bf42822710
parentdee33c9459543bbd59d00c5418b9b2183239205d
[perl #89662] PATCH to perlfunc.pod: select fix

I think it's about time--by say 20 years--that we stop passing around
filehandles as strings, especially if we don't use Symbol::qualify_to_ref()
to fix the package.  Plus it isn't strict-safe.  All fixed now.

I am somewhat concerned about the final comment regarding read
and sysread, as I don't know whether PerlIO encoding translation
issues affect this picture.

--tom
pod/perlfunc.pod