Re^4: map sentence with subtraction interpreted as with negative number

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Thanks.
But it's strange:

open my $A, '>', 'out.txt';
print     $A - 1 == 0 ? "A\n" : "B\n"; # prints 'B' to STDOUT
print STDERR - 1 == 0 ? "A\n" : "B\n"; # prints 'B' to STDERR
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Re^5: map sentence with subtraction interpreted as with negative number by Anonymous Monk on Dec 01, 2015 at 15:08 UTC
As someone said, 'indirect objects are pretty wicked'. They're a great source of bugs. You probably shouldn't torture the Perl's parser so hard in this spot, since it's especially fragile here.	[reply]

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