Re: print $fh; how is this supposed to work?

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On Jan 27, Ilya Zakharevich said:

>Do you want
>
>  $fh = 12;
>  print $fh;
>
>print to filehandle \*12 ? ;-)  [ I think this is how perl4 worked, BTW. ]

Damn, I'm silly.

Ok, then one OTHER gripe.

Why does

  $fh = \*FH;
  print { $fh };

give me a syntax error at '};'?

  print { $fh } $_;

doesn't. :)

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