> Why are these different?

> perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e 'print "$_\n" for < a >;'

> perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e 'print "$_\n" for <a>;'

a could be an old-style bare-word file-handle, but " a " can't

think

• open a, "<", "filename"

instead of the common FH

one of the reasons why ppl are encouraged to use lexical filehandles:

• open my $fh, "<", "filename"

update: added code tags in citations, thanks hippo++

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