Re: Why does this work?

From: Bart Lateur (bart.lateur_at_pandora.be)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:04:51 GMT

Joe Smith wrote:

>Brian McCauley wrote:

>> I would consider the behaviour described in this thread to be a
>> (non-serious) bug in Perl

>It is not a bug. It is a feature that was deliberately added to
>the language and is documented.

You're missing the point.

        use strict; print -force

prints:

        -force

both in 5.6.1 as in 5.8.3. For some reason, strict seems to be too
relaxed here. Maybe that is by design too, to allow for emulation of
named parameters more easily. 

-- 
	Bart.

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