Re: $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR strikes against LWP

Gisle Aas (aas@bergen.sn.no)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 11:26:06 +0200 

In message <199604251754.TAA02572@anna.in-berlin.de>, Andreas Koenig writes:
> there must be still a place in libwww, where you print without setting
> $\ locally to "".

The same problem applies to $, $# and $" I guess.

Perhaps we should start to use syswrite() instead of print in
libraries :-)

There are also places in libwww-perl where I do:

  while (<FILE>) { ... }

without setting $/ locally to "\n".

I guess we also have worry about somebody setting $* to 1?

Perhaps every library module should start out with these lines:

  local($_);
  local($/) = "\n";
  local($#) = "%.20g";
  local($,) = "";
  local($\) = "";
  local($*) = 0;

or perhaps we can get perl to treat all these special variables like
it treats $[?

I was surprised about this behaviour:  perl -le '$# = 666; print 42'

Regards,
Gisle