in reply to ease binmode STDIN; binmode STDOUT

The sub BEGIN, which is a perverse way of simply writing a BEGIN block, is completely unnecessary, and obfuscates this code needlessly. Just a simple version will do: 
binmode STDIN;
binmode STDOUT;
1;

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-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: •Re: ease binmode STDIN; binmode STDOUT
by svad (Pilgrim) on May 17, 2002 at 05:15 UTC
    you're right.

    When I inserted a code I thought "is that BEGIN really necessary" but decided to insert code as it was in my file, although it can be reduced.

    Vadim.

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