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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-01-22 11:57:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-01-22 11:57:24 +0000 |
| commit | 191f2cf3f90fff5e4eb7a8663a83ed6c7031cf5d (patch) | |
| tree | 5fddc5ebdd2de41033084518e1597944ebff1796 /pod | |
| parent | 2f3b6ae408a2d23f3c90b00b9fbaa2ad4c9a755a (diff) | |
| download | perl-191f2cf3f90fff5e4eb7a8663a83ed6c7031cf5d.tar.gz | |
better Carp reporting within subclassed modules (from Wolfgang Laun
<wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4839
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index cd596e2044..04c16a5dae 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -731,9 +731,10 @@ See L<INSTALL> and L<README.Y2K>. =head2 E<lt>HANDLEE<gt> on empty files -With C<$/> set to C<undef>, slurping an empty file returns a string of +With C<$/> set to C<undef>, "slurping" an empty file returns a string of zero length (instead of C<undef>, as it used to) the first time the -HANDLE is read. Further reads yield C<undef>. +HANDLE is read after C<$/> is set to C<undef>. Further reads yield +C<undef>. This means that the following will append "foo" to an empty file (it used to do nothing): |