On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jenda Krynicky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just to prevent confusion ... the "use autodie" is not needed to be
> able to open a "filehandle into a string". ...
> It forces some Perl builtins to throw an exception instead of
> reporting success or failure using their return values.
I understand what you're saying, I thought it was to cover the fact
that open return value wasn't being checked? Same as if I'd rewritten
that to be
open my $fh_to_string, '<', \$buffer
or die "can't unbuffer string: $!";
hmm, but can that open ever fail?
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