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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-05-14 07:00:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-05-14 07:00:02 +0000 |
| commit | a3cb178b0bad32fa8be934503d051b96a3cb1fea (patch) | |
| tree | bb5ab9c595a9158c059710be33d4e5ff619bf3fc /pod/perltrap.pod | |
| parent | 43051805d53a3e4c5b2185a17655cab5bedc17ed (diff) | |
| download | perl-a3cb178b0bad32fa8be934503d051b96a3cb1fea.tar.gz | |
[win32] merge changes#872,873 from maintbranch
p4raw-link: @873 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: 990f469d529b62458be38e8659885fd26d353629
p4raw-link: @872 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: 0b85608df162729d39cb0f96c9f88c7de0a3ceab
p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@935
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perltrap.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perltrap.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltrap.pod b/pod/perltrap.pod index 02abc3b03b..9d861e3ae5 100644 --- a/pod/perltrap.pod +++ b/pod/perltrap.pod @@ -757,15 +757,11 @@ variable is localized subsequent to the assignment # perl4 prints: This is Perl 4 # perl5 prints: - # Another example - - *fred = *barney; # fred is aliased to barney - @barney = (1, 2, 4); - # @fred; - print "@fred"; # should print "1, 2, 4" +=item * (Globs) - # perl4 prints: 1 2 4 - # perl5 prints: In string, @fred now must be written as \@fred +Assigning C<undef> to a glob has no effect in Perl 5. In Perl 4 +it undefines the associated scalar (but may have other side effects +including SEGVs). =item * (Scalar String) |